Breakdown of Le mur est entre les deux chambres.
Questions & Answers about Le mur est entre les deux chambres.
The lesson is about prepositions with 'de', like 'près de'. Why isn't there a 'de' after 'entre'?
Unlike complex prepositions (which are made of multiple words like à côté de), entre is a simple, one-word preposition. It translates directly as 'between' and doesn't need an extra de after it. You just put the noun phrase directly after it: entre les deux chambres. Does chambres mean any room in a house?
No, une chambre specifically means a 'bedroom'. If you want to talk about a generic room in a house, you would use the word une pièce. So here, the wall is specifically between the bedrooms, not just any two rooms. Why does it say les deux chambres instead of just deux chambres?
Adding the plural article les makes it specific: 'the two bedrooms'. If you said entre deux chambres, it would just mean 'between two bedrooms' (any two in general). Using les shows we are talking about two specific bedrooms we already know about in the house. Learn Le mur est entre les deux chambres and more in French
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