What is mean by DES in French?

What is mean by DES in French?

The French partitives of du, de la, de l’ and des mean ‘some’ and ‘any’ in English.

What is DES with an accent in French?

The words dès and des show the way in which the accent grave is used to distinguish certain words graphically that are pronounced in the same way. It is used with the letter {a} to distinguish the preposition à from the third person singular active indicative form of the verb avoir: a.

Is Des a word?

No, des is not in the scrabble dictionary.

How do you spell Des?

Correct pronunciation for the word “des” is [dˈɛs], [dˈɛs], [d_ˈɛ_s].

Do I use DES or Les?

Grammar jargon: Les is the plural definite article; Des is the plural indefinite article. These articles are used with countable nouns (things you can count, like dogs, as opposed to mass nouns for things like milk which use partitive articles instead.)

Is Des masculine or feminine?

French indefinite articles

What’s the difference between DU and AU in French?

Roughly, “au” means “to the” and “du” means “of the”, “by the” (in the sense of authorship), or “from the”, when placed before a masculine noun.

What is the difference between AUX and Au in French?

“Au” is the contraction of *“à le” (*“à le” is grammatically incorrect). Similarly, “aux” is the contraction of *“à les”. In French, the name of a country is indeed preceded by an article. We say “la France, le Portugal, l’Allemagne, les Pays-Bas”.

What are two meanings of DES?

Des definition Diethylstilbestrol. abbreviation. Short for diethylstilbestrol. A synthetic nonsteroidal substance having estrogenic properties and prescribed between 1938 and 1971 to pregnant women with a history of miscarriage and other problems of pregnancy.

What does DES mean before a name?

In many European languages family names are often preceded by a preposition (de, da, di, von, and van all mean “of”), an article (le and la mean “the”) or both (du, des, del, de la, della and van der all mean “of the”).