"Donnez-moi l’essence." or Mettez de l’essence."
For "Give me petrol" do you say "Donnez-moi l’essence." or Mettez de l’essence"? Or is either OK? In the first one, should it instead be "Donnez-moi de l’essence"?

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"Donnez-moi l’essence." or Mettez de l’essence."
For "Give me petrol" do you say "Donnez-moi l’essence." or Mettez de l’essence"?  Or is either OK?  In the first one, should it instead be "Donnez-moi de l’essence"?

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Hi ! "Donnez-moi de l'essence" is ok, but I would use "Je voudrais de l'essence". But I don't think you will use this sentence, because all the gas stations have self-service.

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@Marc - This comes from the same audio course that included "Est-ce qu’il y a un téléphone à la poste ?", which gives you some idea of the era in which it was written, so maybe there was no self-service back then either!

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Le plein (d'essence) s'il vous plait ou 30 euros d'essence s'il vous plait

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I can help you if you want

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donnez-moi l'essence