Countable nouns.
There are some nouns that can be both countable and uncountable, depending on how you use them.
For example, chicken.
If you're talking about whole chickens, you can count them.
One chicken, two chickens, some chickens.
But it can also be uncountable.
Some chicken, for example, which means a little bit of chicken.
A trick to see whether in French you should put do dollar or day in front of a noun is to put the word
some in front of it in English.
If the noun gains an s then use de de es as the word for some.
If the noun doesn't gain an se in English then use du du or dula as the word for some.
For example, some chicken would be du palais, but then some chickens would be deeply.
Let's have a look at some nouns that can be countable and uncountable.
So we've already had chicken when it's countable.
You can say some chickens.
Uncountable.
Some chicken.
Cheese where you can say some cheeses for different sorts of cheese or if it's uncomfortable, you can
say some cheese when it's talking about just a bit of cheese.
Ice cream.
Well, you can say some ice creams when you're talking about more than one ice cream or you can say
some ice cream when you just want a bit of ice cream.
Cabbage.
Countable You could say some cabbages for whole cabbages.
But if you just want a bit of cabbage, you can say some cabbage and then it's uncountable.
Lettuce.
You can say some lettuces or some lettuce.
The same with cauliflower, some cauliflowers, some cauliflower.
And.
LAMB If you're talking about whole lambs or lambs in a field, you can say some lambs.
But if you're talking about just a bit of lamb to eat, you can say some lamb.
So those are some nouns that can be both countable and uncountable in English.
Now let's have a look at what happens to French nouns when you change what sort of article you put in
front of them.
So we'll have a look at this table, which has indefinite articles on the left, definite articles in
the middle, and positive articles on the right.
So you can see the difference.
You might want to write this table down and then fill it in as we go through it.
So firstly, we have chicken.
Now I'm going to be using the plural indefinite articles for all of these, not the singular.
If it were the singular, you would just say Ampoule a chicken.
But I'm going to be using it in the plural.
So you can see the differences between the countable and the uncountable nouns.
So indefinite we have deeply, deeply meaning.
Some chickens.
Definite.
We have Liverpool.
Liverpool?
The chicken.
And as a positive, we have deeply, deeply some chicken.
So you can see the difference between the indefinite deeply some chickens that's accountable noun and
then duplicate duplicate in the positive.
That's some chicken that's an uncountable noun.
Then we have cheese.
Indefinite.
It goes de fromage.
De fromage.
Some cheeses.
Definite.
Le fromage.
The cheese.
And then positive new fromage du fromage, some cheese.
So if you want a variety of cheeses, you can say de fromage.
If you just want a bit of cheese to eat, you can say Do Fromage.
Ice cream.
We have the glass.
The glass in the indefinite article.
Meaning some ice creams.
La glass.
La glass means the ice cream.
And in the positive dollar glass do like glass.
It means some ice cream.
So if you're offering some ice cream to someone, you can say, well, if you'd like glass, do you
want some ice cream?
Then we have cabbage.
So in the indefinite we have this shu de shu some cabbages in the definite article column we have left
through Le Shu, meaning the cabbage.
And then in the positive it goes w do w some cabbage.
Lettuce goes.
They let you.
For some lettuces.
In the definite article column, it goes.
Lally to lally to the lettuce.
And then in the positive.
De la let you do it to some lettuce.
Then cauliflowers.
We can have it in the indefinite article.
And it would be the fleur de souffle.
Some cauliflowers.
In the definite column.
LA Shuffler.
The cauliflower.
And then in the positive column, do issue flare du shoe flare.
Some cauliflower.
And then we look at one more lamb.
So in the indefinite article, we can say, these are new.
These are new, which means some lambs.
Then with a definite article, we can say.
Leno.
Meaning the lamb.
And then in the positive we can say dollar new dollar new meaning some lamb.