materi ajar ARTICLE DEFINI ET INDEFINI dan ADJECTIF POSSESSIF

L’article défini et indéfini

The determiner or indefinite article a or an is translated by un + masculine noun and by une + feminine noun:

-- Artikel defini dan indefini merupakan penanda kata benda--

 

1. a tree

= un arbre

= sebuah pohon

2. a chair

= une chaise

= sebuah kursi

A : Qu’est-ce que c’est ? What is it ?

B : C’est un livre. It’s a book

A : C’est le livre de Jacques ? That’s jacques’s   book ?

B. Oui, c’est son livre. Yes that’s his book

 ADJECTIF POSSESSIF

In French, determiners agree in gender and number with the noun they qualify. So his when used as a determiner is translated by mon, ton, son + masculine singular noun (son livre), by ma, ta, sa + feminine singular noun (sa maison) BUT ATTENTION by mon, ton, son + feminine noun beginning with a vowel or mute h ( son assiette) and by mes, tes ses + plural noun masculine or feminine (ses enfants).

KESIMPULAN :

1. Article defini : le, la and les. Article defini is to explain the general thing and knowable thing.

2. Article indefini : un, une and des. Article indefini is to explain unknowable thing and number of thing.

3. l’adjectif possessif : mon, ma, mes, son, sa, ses, ton, ta, tes. Adjectif possessif precede the noun they modify. Unlike their english counterpart. They agrre in both gender and number with the noun they precede, and not with their possessor