Three Step French - Practice #7 - Managing Hotel Check-ins in French - Recap
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Do you know how to use "à partir de" and "jusqu'à" in French ? Welcome to 3-step French practice by FrenchPod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice time-related expressions. Let's look at the main dialogue. Three people are having a conversation. L'enregistrement à l'hôtel est à partir de 15 heures. Check-in at the hotel is from 3 pm. Nous avons encore 30 minutes. Voilà le lobby.
Est-ce que tu veux un café ? We still have 30 minutes. Here is the lobby. Do you want a coffee ? À partir de. Oui, s'il te plaît. Quel genre de piscine est-ce qu'il y a ici ? Yes, please. What kind of pool is there here ? C'est une piscine intérieure. Elle est ouverte jusqu'à 22 heures. It's an indoor pool. It is open until 10 pm. Jusqu'à. À partir de.
is a set phrase. That means "starting from". It's used to talk about when something begins. When the preposition "de" meaning "from" or "of" is followed by a definite article like "le" the masculine singular or "les" the plural, they combine into contractions to make speech smoother. So "de" plus "le"
becomes "du" and "de" plus "les" becomes "des". Des constructions are required and help the sentence flow more naturally. You can find "à partir de" in the pattern we learned "Noun", noun phrase, et "à partir de", time, meaning noun or noun phrase is from time.
Jusqu'à means "until" and is used with time or date. It comes from jusque meaning "up to" and à meaning "to or at". When the preposition à meaning "to, at or until"
est suivi d'un article définitif comme "le" ou "les" , ils contractent pour rendre la parole plus douce et plus naturelle aussi. Ces contractions sont mandatoires en français. + "le" devient "au" et "à" + "les" devient "au". Vous pouvez souvent le voir dans le pattern.
non or none phrase est ouverte jusqu'à time, which means non or none phrase is open until time. Let's practice using à partir de and jusqu'à in this lesson.