Thread: Tour "de" vs. "du" France
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Old 02-13-06, 04:08 PM
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It's Tour de France. Du is a combination of de and le, le being the masculine "the". Countries don't take a the, so it's tour de france.

Either way, france is feminine, so it can't be du. It might be de la, but not du.
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