Please advice which is correct and why?
- Les personnes des nationalites differents
or
- Les personnes de nationalites differents
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Cristabelle P.Kwiziq community member
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This question relates to:French lesson ""Des" becomes " de/d' " in front of adjectives preceding nouns (French Partitive Articles)"
Asked 4 years ago
Hi Cristabelle,
It is -
Les personnes de nationalités différentes = People of different nationalities
simply 'of' not 'of the' which wouldn't make any sense in English either
I hope this helps!
Don C.Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
I would like to know also. I suspect your example might not represent this lesson since 'personnes' is the noun. And you are saying, in a sense, "people of different nationalities" which means that "different" and "nationalities" are both adjectives.
Chris W. Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
@Don: the adjective différentes uniquely and unmistakably belongs to the noun nationalités. There's no ambiguity there.
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