1. Le neveu, au neveu. garçons, aux garçons. 4. Oral Drill. L'oncle, les oncles, à l'oncle, aux oncles. 5. Aux médecins, aux amis, aux amies. 1. The boy, the friend (m.), the friend (f.), the family, the neighbors. 2. To the boy, to the friend (m.), to the friend (f.), to the family, to the neighbors. 3. The man, to the man, the men, to the men. the women, to the women. the brothers, to the brothers. father, to the child. 4. The woman, to the woman, 5. The brother, to the brother, 6. The father, the child, to the Lesson 14: Contraction of De and Definite Article. 2 Of the = du before a masculine noun beginning with a consonant or aspirate h. de la before a feminine noun beginning with a consonant or aspirate h. de l' before a masculine or feminine noun beginning with a vowel or mute h. des before a plural noun. le chapeau, the hat. l'habit (m.), the coat. la robe, the dress. une bague, a ring. Vocabulary. quatorze, fourteen. reçu, received. un cadeau, a gift, a present. porté, carried, worn. apporté, brought. ôté, taken off. montré, shown. Exercise. 1. A-t-il parlé au frère ou au fils du médecin ? 2. Jean a reçu un cadeau de son oncle. 3. Louis a reçu un chapeau, et Louise a reçu une bague. 4. Un de mes élèves a écrit quatorze phrases; il n'a pas joué avec ses amis. 5. J'ai donné un habit au fils de la pauvre femme. 6. Mon voisin a apporté treize ou quatorze livres aux enfants. 7. Qui a pris les livres des enfants? 8. As-tu vu le chapeau du garçon ? 9. Avez-vous la montre de la jeune fille? 10. Les cahiers des élèves sont sur la table. 1. We have received a letter from the doctor's son. 2. He has shown his exercises to his brother's friend. 3. My friend has given his daughter a ring. 4. The man's children have received a gift from the neighbors. 5. Our neighbor is a good woman. 6. Did your father sell his house to the doctor or to the doctor's neighbor? 7. Isn't the boy's grammar easy? 8. Have you written the first sentence of the eleventh lesson? 9. Has he brought a letter from his friend's father or from his father's friend? 10. Are the child's father and mother rich or poor? 11. Has John spoken to the woman's nephew or son? 12. Did the boy wear his hat in the house? 13. Did Louis take his hat off? 14. Have my pupils prepared their lesson or have they played with their friends? Oral Drill. 2. Of the 1. The nephew, the man, the aunt, the boys. nephew, of the man, of the aunt, of the boys. 3. The friend (m.), the friend (f.), of the friend (m.), of the friend (f.), the friends (m.), of the friends (f.). 4. The boy, of the boy, to the boy, of the boys, to the boys. 5. The father, from the father, to the father. 6. The child, from the child, to the child. 7. The children, from the children, to the children. (1) Possessive pronouns, in French, agree in gender and number with the object possesed, and not, as in English, with the possessor. Note carefully the circumflex accent that distinguishes the possessive pronouns nôtre and vôtre from the possessiye adjectives notre and votre. In the sentence Your pencil is a good one, but hers is a poor one, Votre crayon est bon, mais le sien est mauvais, the pronoun le sien is masculine singular, because crayon, the noun which it represents, is masculine singular. In the sentence Here is my watch; where is yours? Voici ma montre; où est la vôtre? the pronoun la vôtre is feminine singular, because the noun montre is feminine singular. (2) Expressions like a friend of mine, a book of hers, etc., are in French, one of my friends, one of her books, etc. : a friend of mine, a book of hers, un de mes amis, une de mes amies. un de ses livres. 1 Literally, The garment doesn't make the monk. |