Questions & Answers about J'aime ce genre de film.
If I wanted to say 'I know this kind of film,' would I use savoir or connaître?
You would use connaître and say Je connais ce genre de film. You use connaître when you are familiar with a noun, like a person, place, or thing. Savoir is used for facts, memorized information, or knowing how to do an action. Why is it ce genre instead of cet genre?
Genre is a masculine word that starts with a consonant, so it takes the basic masculine word for 'this' or 'that', which is ce. You only use cet for masculine words that start with a vowel or a silent H. Why is there no article before film? Why not genre du film?
When describing a type or category of something, French uses de directly followed by the bare noun, without an article like le or un. This is similar to how you drop the article after quantity words, like in beaucoup de. Could I write ce genre de films with an 's' at the end of films?
Yes, both are correct! Writing ce genre de film in the singular focuses on the general concept of 'film', while ce genre de films in the plural focuses on the individual movies within that genre. Learn J'aime ce genre de film and more in French
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