We've had five of the six in definite article rules now.
Rule number six is.
Adjective upfront.
If a noun has an adjective in front of it and it's in the plural, instead of using day, you just use
the.
For example.
Marie Adams often.
Marie has good children, so the word bomb goes in front of the noun and it's in the plural.
So we use the word de rather than saying Marie de Bonnes on phone, we say, Marie, are the bombs often?
Pierre adopted.
Pierre.
A deputy Pierre.
Pierre has small feet.
So because the word small in French goes in front of the noun and in this sentence it's in the plural.
We don't say Pierre de Petit.
We say Pierre at the tip.
Aviva.
Don't question.
Aviva, don't question.
Do you have any other questions?
So because the word ultra comes in front of the noun and in this sentence it's in the plural we use
de rather than de.
So we don't say Avenue de otra christian.
We say avenue though.
Don't question.
Do you have any other questions?
So that's six rules for using the indefinite articles in French.
Number one was the same as an or some in English.
Number two, not with jobs.
Number three, if the word some is possible in English with plural, countable nouns.
Number four negative do.
Number five were those expressions.
And number six is if you place the adjective upfront in front of the noun and it's in the plural, then
you use de rather than de.
Now, as I write all these rules, I'm gobsmacked myself by how many there are.
But this is just a reference list view.
I don't expect you to remember them all by heart.
In fact, I can't believe I knew all of these rules myself as I never physically sat down and learnt
them all in one go.
I learnt them as I went along and that's what we've been doing in the three minute French courses.
We've been learning these rules one at a time, sporadically here and there.
So you probably knew quite a few of them subconsciously and would have used them correctly without thinking.
But these lists I'm giving you now are, as I said, for you to use as a reference, should you ever
think, how do I say this again?
So what you can do is write the rules down on a cue card that you can use at a later date if you ever
need to clarify anything.