What isn't there: negation before a noun with 'il y a' | French

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Match the French and the English.
- l'aéroport
  
  ⇔
  
  airport ✓
- l'étranger
  
  ⇔
  
  abroad ✓
- les États-Unis
  
  ⇔
  
  USA ✓
- l'hôtel
  
  ⇔
  
  hotel ✓
- l'ile
  
  ⇔
  
  island ✓
Match the verbs in French and English.
- je sors
  
  ⇔
  
  I go out ✓
- tu sors
  
  ⇔
  
  you go out ✓
- elle sort
  
  ⇔
  
  she goes out ✓
- je viens
  
  ⇔
  
  I come ✓
- tu viens
  
  ⇔
  
  you come ✓
- elle vient
  
  ⇔
  
  she comes ✓
Which word is a preposition?
- venir
- Alger
- souvent
- sur ✓
- chanteur
'Une personne ______'. Which is the correct word to say 'Algerian'?
- Algérie
- algérien
- algérienne ✓
- Alger
Order the sentence in French to say: 'There is an airport and some hotels'.
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  il
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  y
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  a
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  un
- 5
  
  ⇔
  
  aéroport et
- 6
  
  ⇔
  
  des
- 7
  
  ⇔
  
  hôtels
What is the French verb 'to go, going'?
- 'aller' ✓

What is 'the beach' in French?
- le café
- le cinéma
- le magasin
- la plage ✓
- la rue
'Il a des cinémas et un collège mais il n'y a pas de poste'. This tells us that there isn't a ______.
- 'post office' ✓
Which words contain the [ch] sound in French?
- pet/animal
- dog ✓
- phone
- thing ✓
- ruler
Choose the correct missing word: 'Je n'ai pas ______ éléphants.'
- d' ✓
- de
- des
- un
- une
Order the sentence to say in French: 'There isn't a cinema here.'
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  il
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  n'y
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  a
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  pas
- 5
  
  ⇔
  
  de
- 6
  
  ⇔
  
  cinéma
- 7
  
  ⇔
  
  ici
Match the sentence halves.
- Il y a un
  
  ⇔
  
  garçon. ✓
- Il y a une
  
  ⇔
  
  plage. ✓
- Il n'y a pas
  
  ⇔
  
  de cafés. ✓
- Il n'y a pas d'
  
  ⇔
  
  enfant. ✓
- Elle a des
  
  ⇔
  
  chiens. ✓
- Elle n'a
  
  ⇔
  
  pas d'ordinateur. ✓

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[ch] sounds like chercher.
Prepositions such as 'derrière', 'devant' and 'entre' are useful for telling us where objects are.
To say what you don't have use 'ne...pas' around 'avoir'. After this all articles change to de or d'.
To say 'there isn't' or 'there aren't' we use 'il n'y a pas'. After this all articles change to de or d'.

Use the indefinite article after 'il n'y a pas' like you would with 'il y a'.

After 'il n'y a pas' always use de (or d' before words starting with vowels) regardless of gender or number.

[ch] - pronounced as in 'chercher'
Il n’y a pas - there isn't or there aren't
Preposition - a word that is used before a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun, connecting it to another word