Buying produce: de, not du
After a quantity, the partitive collapses to plain de:
| un kilo de cerises | a kilo of cherries |
| la moitié d'un melon | half a melon |
| beaucoup de haricots | a lot of beans |
Compare the bare partitive you have had since L45: Je mange *du melon.*
| I bought a kilo of peas. | J'ai acheté un kilo de petits pois. |
le petit pois is one word made of two
le petit pois is a fixed compound — the adjective is part of the name, not a description, so it is never dropped. The plural puts -s on both halves: les petit*s pois*.
la pêche has two lives
| la pêche | the peach |
| la pêche | fishing |
Same spelling, unrelated meanings. Context always settles it, and this lesson teaches the fruit.
| This peach is very sweet. | Cette pêche est très sucrée. |
l'ail is masculine
Despite ending in a consonant sound that suggests otherwise, l'ail is masculine — l'ail est fort. It has no ordinary plural; you count une gousse d'ail, a clove.
Colours agree
vert behaves like any adjective: un haricot vert, des haricots verts, une pomme verte.
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