I'm having trouble understanding "du" in the sentence "Odile aime faire du camping dans la montagne." Doesn't "du" mean "from/of the"? Can it also mean something else? How is this sentence proper? How would it be translated in English. Thank you!|||Odile aime faire du camping dans la montagne is just : Odile likes going camping in the mountains.
"Du" means a lot of things in french, not only from/of the.
In your sentence it's a contracted form of "de le" ; with the masculine form, we always contract and as "camping" is a masculine word we say "du". With "plong茅e" wich is a feminine word we would say "de la". With all plural words we say "des" which is a contracted form for "de les".
Elle aime faire du (de le) camping. Elle aime faire du sport. Elle aime faire du v茅lo...
Elle aime faire de la plong茅e. Elle aime faire de la danse. Elle aime faire de la musique...
Elle aime organiser des f锚tes.
It can also be the same with "about" when we "talk about something" :
She's talking about life. Life = vie (feminine) so : Elle parle de la vie.
She's talking about the weather. Weather = temps (masculine) so : Elle parle du (de le) temps.
She talking about people. People = gens (plural) so : Elle parle des (de les) gens.
Du can also mean "some" :
She eat (some) bread : Elle mange du pain.
She drinks (some) orange juice : Elle boit du jus d'orange.
And when the following word starts with a vowel, we say " de l' " instead of "du" or "de la".
She has money : Elle a de l'argent.
She's imaginative (or she has imagination) : Elle a de l'imagination.
Hope that will help a little (I'm not so good at explaining :P)
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