Faire de, jouer à
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Marnie C.Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Faire de, jouer à
Just wondering if it might be possible to add a note after the end of the examples for »jouer à/au » and sport saying NB when you play an instrument however you say « jouer à la/au » just to remind people that jouer is used in this way also???
This question relates to:French lesson "Faire de/jouer à : talking about sports, hobbies and leisure activities in French"
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Hi Marnie,
For musical instruments we use, 'jouer de'.
A few more examples -
jouer de la guitare,
jouer de la clarinette,
jouer du piano ,
jouer du tambour,
jouer de la harpe,
jouer des castagnettes....
Hope this helps!
Marnie C.Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
thanks Cécile it does. Just think it would be useful to mention this in the faire/jouer section on playing sports...as a note...”but when used with instruments it is ‘Jouer de/etc”. I see somebody else agrees with me.
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AurélieKwiziq team member
Bonjour Marnie !
This was an excellent suggestion, and I've now added it to the lesson above :)
Merci et bonne journée !
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