Unité 4: Au café

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Point de départ
The verbs prendre (to take, to have) and boire (to drink),
like être, avoir, and aller, are irregular.

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The forms of the verbs apprendre (to learn) and
comprendre (to understand) follow the same pattern
as that of prendre.

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Partitives
Use partitive articles in French to express some or any.
To form the partitive, use the preposition de followed by a
definite article. Although the words some and any are
often omitted in English, the partitive must always be
used in French.

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Note that partitive articles are only used with non-count
nouns (nouns whose quantity cannot be expressed by
a number).
The article des also means some, but it is the plural form
of the indefinite article, not the partitive.