Food and drink: 'boire' singular, write about own eating routines
Learning outcomes
I can use the irregular verb 'boire', partitive articles and negation to describe my eating and drinking habits.
I can pronounce and spell the sound-symbol correspondences [i] and [ille].
Food and drink: 'boire' singular, write about own eating routines
Learning outcomes
I can use the irregular verb 'boire', partitive articles and negation to describe my eating and drinking habits.
I can pronounce and spell the sound-symbol correspondences [i] and [ille].
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Key learning points
- [i] sounds like 'midi'.
- [ill/ille] sounds like 'fille'.
- 'Boire' (to drink) is irregular but has the same singular present tense endings as verbs like 'sortir' and 'venir'.
- Uncountable nouns cannot be counted, only measured; they always need the partitive article.
- In negative sentences, change the partitive article to 'de' or 'd'' before nouns starting with a vowel/h.
Keywords
[i] - pronounced as in 'midi'
[ill/ille] - pronounced as in 'fille'
Partitive article - refer to parts of things; often mean 'some' in English
Uncountable noun - noun which cannot be counted, only measured, e.g. (lots of) luck, (some) music, (1kg) rice.
Common misconception
Always use the partitive article after food and drink items, even with negative sentences.
The partitive article changes to 'de' to say what you don't eat and drink e.g. 'je ne mange pas de pizza'.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
une
l'
du
nous
puisque
gérer
Exit quiz
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a lot
little
then
as, because
first
also