The French partitives of du, de la, de l' and des mean 'some' and 'any' in English. Practise constructing sentences using these partitives.
When talking about playing an instrument we use jouer de. The de must then agree with the noun that follows:
When talking about food as in buying quantities, de doesn’t require an article to follow it, as here it means of. Normally however, the noun can be in the plural form just as in English. For example:
Similarly, when reading a recipe, the ingredients preceded by de don’t need an article agreement, as here too de means of. For example: