Breakdown of Le grand couloir est loin des chambres.
être
to be
grand
big / tall
la chambre
the bedroom
le
him, it (masculine direct object pronoun)
loin de
far from
le couloir
the hallway / the corridor
Questions & Answers about Le grand couloir est loin des chambres.
Why does the sentence use des chambres instead of de les chambres?
If the hallway was far from a single room, how would the preposition change?
Do I always need the de after loin?
You only need de (or its contractions like du and des) when you are stating what the object is far from. If you just want to say "The hallway is far" without mentioning the bedrooms, you drop the preposition entirely and say: Le couloir est loin.
Why is grand placed before couloir? Don't French adjectives usually go after the noun?
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