Breakdown of La star veut de l'intimité chez elle.
elle
she
chez
at the home of / at
de la
some (partitive, feminine)
vouloir
to want
Questions & Answers about La star veut de l'intimité chez elle.
Wait, doesn't intimité mean 'intimacy'? Why does it translate to 'privacy' here?
Intimité is a bit of a false friend. While it can mean 'intimacy', it is also the standard French word for 'privacy' (referring to personal space or private life). French doesn't have a direct equivalent to the English word 'privacy', so you will usually see intimité or vie privée used instead.
Why do we say veut de l'intimité instead of veut l'intimité?
Here, privacy is an uncountable concept, so we need a partitive article (which translates roughly to 'some'). Because intimité starts with a vowel, we use de l'. If you used l'intimité, it would sound like she wants the general concept of all privacy, rather than just 'some' privacy for herself.
What if the celebrity is a man? Would it be le star and chez lui?
Why do we use chez elle instead of à sa maison for 'at her home'?