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Questions & Answers about La baguette est chaude.
Why do we use La here instead of De la, since this lesson is about food?
The partitive article (de la, du) is used when you mean "some" of a food or an uncountable quantity. A baguette is a whole, countable item. Since we are talking about a specific, whole loaf here, we use the definite article la (the). If you wanted just a piece of it, you would say de la baguette (some baguette).
Why does chaude have an "e" at the end?
Does adding that "e" to chaude change the pronunciation?
The translation says "warm", but doesn't chaude mean "hot"?
The French word chaud covers both "hot" and "warm" in English. When talking about fresh bread, English speakers naturally say "warm", but French uses chaude for both temperatures.