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goia

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Belarussian
Do I need an article in the blank spots?

"Meeting lots of ____ French and ______ Italian friends Pascal has, and not being able to talk to them has made me feel anxious to start learning French."


Thank you.
No, French and Italian are adjectives.

The sentence is not correct though, the first part doesn't make sense with or without the blanks.

Edit to add:
Alex's (that) and a comma, make the sentence make sense.

"Meeting lots of French and Italian friends that Pascal has, and not being able to talk to them, has made me feel anxious to start learning French."
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You don't need to, but you can do...
"Meeting lots of ____ 👁 Tick :tick:
French and ______ 👁 Tick :tick:
Italian friends (that) Pascal has, and not being able to talk to them has made me feel anxious to start learning French."
"Meeting lots of _the___👁 Tick :tick:
French and ______ 👁 Tick :tick:
Italian friends Pascal has, and not being able to talk to them has made me feel anxious to start learning French."
"Meeting lots of _the_ 👁 Tick :tick:
French and __the_ 👁 Tick :tick:
Italian friends Pascal has, and not being able to talk to them has made me feel anxious to start learning French."
The only combination it doesn't work in for me is when you don't have an article before French, but you do before Italian:
"Meeting lots of ___ French and __the_ 👁 Cross :cross:
Italian friends Pascal has, and not being able to talk to them has made me feel anxious to start learning French."
(This isn't a case of using quantifiers, quantifiers are some/any/many/less etc)
Thank you. You helped me a lot.
I think that if Pascal has friends who are not French or Italian, then I would use the definite article. You couldn't use it if the sentence were recast, "Meeting lots of Pascal's French and Italian friends." But the original sentence does not require articles.

In the original sentence, there should be a comma after "them."
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