Hi Debbi,
it is, Les Etats-Unis and Le Pays de Galles.
Used with Venir de :
Je viens des Etats-Unis.= I come from the USA.
Nous venons du Pays de Galles. = We come from Wales.
Hope this helps!
So you use des if the country is plural like Etas-unis, but Pays du Gaules is du?
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So you use des if the country is plural like Etas-unis, but Pays du Gaules is du?
This question relates to:French lesson "Venir de/d'/du/des = To come/be from with countries/states/regions and continents (French Prepositions)"
Asked 6 years ago
Ron Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
Bonjour Debbi,
I think that you may be looking at this with an English perspective. The word «Pays» is a masculine, singular or plural noun meaning:
1) country
2) region
3) village
all in the singular. The only time it becomes plural is when «des», a partitive article or «les» a definite article, precedes it, i.e. les pays, des pays.
Le Pays du Gaules or du Pays du Gaules is the correct form. As for the U.S. we have:
Les Etats-Unis, des Etats-Unis and aux Etats-Unis. I will admit that I have never seen «des Etats-Unis» used, perhaps I haven't read the correct articles but I don't see how that could be partitive.
J'espère que ma réponse vous aiderait.
Bonne chance et bonne continuation dans vos études en français, la langue de Molière et qui a été utilisé par le monde français depuis l’époque d’Hugues Capet
Ron (un locuteur non natif )
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