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This sentence contains the particle de (part of the verb venir de) followed by the personal pronoun l' followed by the verb acheter. The usual form of this pronoun is le when referring to a masculine noun, and la when referring to a feminine noun. However, when the article is followed by a word that begins with a vowel, the pronoun is always elided to l'. ...
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Unfortunately, there is no rule. Whether the h is considered a consonant (H aspiré, even though the letter itself is not sounded) or is transparent (H muet) is a case-by-case matter, partly driven by etymology. It's more common for words of Latin origin to have a H muet, and for words of Germanic or more recent origin to have a H aspiré, but this is by far ...
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You are right about the vowel part, consider these two examples:
Du pain (instead of "de le pain")
But:
De l'alcool ("alcool" is also masculine, yet "du alcool" is incorrect)
However, in your example the words "de" and "l'" are not linked at all, so you can't replace them by "du".
Consider these two examples:
Je viens de manger. (I just ...
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The correct expression is jusqu'au. I can't think of many cases with two contractions: qu'au(x), more generally; also d'aujourd'hui. There's no special rule about them. If there are two places to contract, and they happen to involve the same word, so be it.
Note that apart from au and du, it's the end of a word that gets elided because of a following ...
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Most contractions are just simple elisions in French (one or two final letters are replaced by an apostrophe). Only four are non-trivial, each of them involve one preposition and one article (they don't apply when le or les are pronouns):
au = “à le”
aux = “à les”
du = “de le”
des = “de les”
Those contractions are always performed, except when the ...
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Dans ton contre-exemple, le n'est pas un article défini, mais un pronom. La contraction ne s'effectue que dans le cas de l'article.
Le même raisonnement s'applique pour les autres contractions [de les >>> des], [à le >>> au], etc.
Exemples :
J'ai fait un gateau. Je me prépare à le manger. (car le est un pronom remplaçant le gateau)
Je parle au ...
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