jouer

faire ou jouer When talking about playing or doing sports in French, you need to use the verbs jouer au or faire, depending on the type of sport. The verb faire is usually followed by de + article + noun, like this: faire de la natation (to swim) or faire du tir à l’arc (to do archery). 1 Use faire de with all sports and activities, except for those that are played against an opponent, such as basketball or chess....

jouer jouer to play, is followed by a preposition à if the object noun is feminine: jouer à la loterie to play the lottery au for a masculine singular noun: jouer au loto to play the lotto aux for plural: jouer aux échecs to play chess pas de (d’) The negative particle pas is followed by de(d’) regardless of whether the following noun is singular or plural: Il n’a pas de billets....