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French
Pronunciation
Article
de l’
- Some; the singular prevocalic partitive article.
- Voudriez-vous de l’ail ? — Would you like some garlic?
Usage notes
- While English does have the partitive determiner some, the French article de l’- frequently translates to nothing at all in English; for example, the above example « Voudriez-vous de l’ail ? » could also be translated simply as “Would you like garlic?”
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Contraction
de l'
- (poetic) Apocopic form of de la (“of the”)
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