I learned some new French sentences today.
"Il y a du pain" means "There is some bread."
"Il n'y a pas de pain " means "There isn't any bread."
"Je vais acheter du pain" means "I'm going to buy some bread."
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Mistakes will always be made in French, and now you can learn from them.
Wrong: Il n'y a pas du pain
Right: Il n'y a pas de pain
Explanation: One of the first things you learn about French vocabulary related to food is that you need to use partitive articles with it, as in je vais acheter du pain (I'm going to buy some bread). You also learn that the partitive article changes to de after a negation, but many French students forget that part. So "there is some bread" is il y a du pain, but "there isn't any bread" is il n'y a pas de pain, not "il n'y a pas du pain."
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