Talk:French/Lessons/Agreement of past participles with avoir

de versus des for plurals
Note: In the example phrase "Nous avons vu de belles filles", "de" is used instead of "des". Perhaps this complicates the example unnecessarily but the usage is supported by a number of grammar references. e.g.
 * According to about.com, "when the plural indefinite or partitive article is used with an adjective that precedes a noun, des changes to de."
 * According to Glanville Price's 2008 "A Comprehensive French Grammar" p35 (Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-4051-5384-3) "The plural partitive (or indefinite) article des is replaced by de when an adjective precedes the noun".

Recent Runes (talk) 20:56, 15 November 2010 (UTC)