Le jeu de société utilise le pion et le dé.

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Breakdown of Le jeu de société utilise le pion et le dé.

• utiliser: to use
• le jeu de société: the board game
• le pion: the playing pawn

Questions & Answers about Le jeu de société utilise le pion et le dé.

Why does jeu de société mean board game when it literally looks like game of society?

This is just the standard French expression for board game.
Literally, jeu de société does look like game of society or social game, but idiomatically it means a game people play together, especially a tabletop/board game.

So:

• un jeu = a game
• de société = social / for social gatherings

As a whole, un jeu de société = a board game.

Why is it de société and not du société or de la société?

In French, when one noun modifies another, de is often used without an article.

So:

• un jeu de cartes = a card game
• une salle de classe = a classroom
• un jeu de société = a board game

Here, de société is not really saying of the society. It is more like a type label: a society/social game. That is why there is no le/la after de.

Why does the sentence start with Le instead of Un?