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RTH RULE 4eme REGLE FONDAMENTALE
L’article indéfini

CONVERSATION

-Lili:I received a mail from Franzeska yesterday.

-Justin:Who is she?

-Lili:We both met a few years ago as she had come to my place with a

friend of hers and had slept in my gîte for almost a week. Since then we

have been keeping in touch that way. She is so nice that I wish I could

visit her but she lives in the north of Germany at about 1200km from

here. In her last mail she said she had caught a cold lately and was so ill
that she couldn’t get out at all even going to the stable to look after her
horse Apiano…

VOCABULAIRE

- Everyday, my dog Ophélie wakes me up. She is my alarm-clock in fact.
Here she comes, she puts her two legs on my bed and she says ‘come
on Mum! It’s time to get up!

-READ CAREFULLY AND ANSWER THESE 2 QUESTIONS

In the first text, how did the author meet Franzeska for the first

time?
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In the second text, how did Ophélie manage to wake up the author

every morning?
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GRAMMAIRE
L’article indéfini un et une
= a (qui se prononce ‘e’) devant un nom commençant par une consonne.

Ex a dog
=“an” devant un nom commençant par une voyelle,

Ex : an elephant

Attention à ces deux exceptions :
 Le ‘y’ en début de mot est considéré comme une consonne

Ex : a year
 Le ‘h’ de hour (cas exceptionnel) ne se prononçant pas, le nom

est ainsi considéré comme commençant par une voyelle.

Ex : an hour
L’article indéfini n’existe pas au pluriel. Le pluriel de « an ice-

cream » est « ice-creams ».
D’autre part, L’article indéfini ‘a’s’emploie devant un nom attribut

singulier.

His father is a doctor. Son père est docteur.

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