à la, au, à l', de la, du, de l'

[smashthesandbag]

You have no idea how much better my french is going to be with the help of this video.

[jessykumba]

merci

[lsfrench]

@jessykumba merci, much more on my website and free too.

[jessykumba]

je peux apprendre ca tres vite

[jessykumba]

MUCH EASY TO COMPREHEND THANQ

[Islami2011]

درس رائع شكرا جزيلا وبالتوفيق

[lsfrench]

@Islami2011 choukrane

[soulchoo]

Very Helpful. Thank you !

[jerichblue21]

Very helpful, but rather than using the contraction 'au' my teacher uses 'le'. Is that a prob?

[lsfrench]

@jerichblue21 le? I don't understand, le is not a contraction, for the feminie we say à la but the masculine is au, using à le is an error.

[Ms195213]

Now everything it's clear for me. Thx!

[sphinzahav]

toda rava. thank you so much! gamsahapnida!!

[smarieannachu]

@Isfrench all your videos are really helpful, merci beaucoup!

[hoooni93]

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[ashburnhouse]

Yeah, this is well done. 

[lsfrench]

@ashburnhouse thank you

[ashburnhouse]

@lsfrench No prob. I do have one question though: how do you know when to use "du" verses "au"?

[lsfrench]

@ashburnhouse Sure, du is the contraction of de le and au of à le, je viens du marché 'I come from the market), je vais au marché (I go to the market), the problem is that it is not always easy to know which preposition to use, most of them depend on the verb, for example: j'obéis au director (I obey the director), here in French the verb is obéir à (it is a prepositional verb) but not in English, so you need to know the verbs and their prepositions.

[ashburnhouse]

@lsfrench Thank you so much.

[hiffy30303]

Is "De l'" for all vowel starting words or only masculine?

[lsfrench]

@hiffy30303 de l is for all de l' amour (amour is masculine) de l'envie (envie is feminine)

[Abdikareem0]

My French is good, but struggle with the feminine and masculin because it's very important in the French language, many thanks this is very helpful.

[lsfrench]

@Abdikareem0 you are welcome, you may find interesting w w w(dot) frenglishnews(dot) c o m and on facebook my French Daily Expression, Pascal

[Abdikareem0]

@lsfrench What's the facebook one?

[john26razor]

This lesson was really helpful, keep up the great work!

[lsfrench]

@john26razor Thank you!

[DreamtAlways]

merci beaucoup.

[lemarteau63]

Thank you for all your help Isfrench,i feel i'm getting there,keep up the good work.Cheers.

[lsfrench]

@lemarteau63 thank you for your nice comment!

[0megaSapphire]

But you do pronounce the 'x' in 'aux' when the next word is a vowel or mute h ???

[lsfrench]

@0megaSapphire yes, you can but you pronounce it as if it was a "s"