Okay, srs question cos duolingo doesn't explain this at all.
Why is du sometimes used before a noun and not other times?
Like "We are eating chicken" doesn't have an article, but I have to use du anyway?
@lanodan_tmp Yeah, but then wouldn't that translate to "We are eating the chicken"?
Like, at least in duolingo it seems random
@lanodan_tmp Yah, that's what someone else said too. that makes so much more sense haha
@spiderrobotpig « On/Nous mangeons le poulet »
”We are eating the chicken”
« On/Nous mangeons du poulet »
“We are eating chicken(s)”
(du is « indéfinit » (~undefined), no plural and gender is a bit neutralised too)