The Indefinite Article

Bleu, Unit 4, Lesson 10

In the center diamond, write:

What are the indefinite articles?In the top, left box write:

masculine un

un crayon

feminine une

une radio

plural des

des cahiers

But what does it all mean?Write this in the top, right box:

The indefinite article means:

un, une – a or an

un crayon – a pencil

une radio – a radio

des – some

des cahiers – (some) notebooks

des chats – (some) cats

Do I have to use the indefinite article?Write this in the lower, left box

In French, a noun always has some sort of article or number in front of it. (It’s not like this in English.)

Compare:

I have dogs. (no article)

J’ai des chiens. ( same sentence as above, but it has to have that article!)

Things change when the sentence is negative!

Write this in the bottom, right box:

If a sentence is negative (aka ne…pas),

the un, the une or the des change to

DE (d’)

This only happens with the indefinite article!!!!!

Examples of negative

+ J’ai une voiture.

- Je n’ai pas de voiture.

+ Vous avez des ordinateur.

- Vous n’avez pas d’ordinateur.

+ Tu as une moto.

- Tu n’as pas de moto.