parler de livres

Kathleen P.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

in the sentence "J'adorais parler de livres" why de and not des? there is no adjective.

Asked 4 years ago

CécileKwiziq Native French TeacherCorrect answer

Hi kathleen,

The text says -

J'adorais parler de livres avec ... = I used to love to talk about books with

This is speaking of books in general.

if you wanted to say -

I used to love speaking of the books I was reading at the moment with ...

then, you would use :

'des = de +les '

J'adorais parler des livres que j'étais en train de lire avec ...

Hope this helps!

Like34 years ago

in the sentence "J'adorais parler de livres" why de and not des? there is no adjective.

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