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Re: Russian "a" and Norwegian "ikke/ingen" (was: Re: Question about Latin.)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 15:03
Hi!

"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:20:29AM +0200, Philippe Caquant wrote: > > We say "Je n'ai pas de voiture", "je n'ai pas > > d'enfants" (interesting, normally 'voiture' singular, > > but 'enfants' plural). > > Hm . If |enfants| is plural, why isn't it preceded by |des| instead of |d'| ?
After 'je n'ai pas/plus/rien de..', there is never an article in French, but just plain 'de'. Thus: a) Je voudrais du cafe / de la biere / des croissants. b) Je ne voudrais pas de cafe / de biere / de croissants. **Henrik

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>