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Ton grand-père prépare le petit-déjeuner.

Ton grand-père prépare le petit-déjeuner.
Your grandfather prepares breakfast.
From Lesson 24:Singular possessives (mon, ton, son)·French

Questions & Answers about Ton grand-père prépare le petit-déjeuner.

Why do we use ton here instead of ta?
Ton means 'your' for masculine singular nouns. Since grand-père (grandfather) is masculine, we use ton. If you were talking about your grandmother, you would use the feminine form, ta grand-mère.
Why is there a le before petit-déjeuner? English just says 'prepares breakfast.'
In French, you almost always need an article (like 'the' or 'a') before a noun, even when we drop it in English. For meals like breakfast (le petit-déjeuner), lunch (le déjeuner), or dinner (le dîner), French uses the definite article (le).
What does petit-déjeuner literally mean?
It literally means 'little lunch.' In French, déjeuner means lunch, and adding petit (little) makes it breakfast! Notice that it is connected with a hyphen to make it one single compound noun.
Why does the verb prépare end in '-e'?
Prépare comes from the regular '-er' verb préparer (to prepare). Because the subject of the sentence is ton grand-père (which counts as 'he' or il), we drop the '-er' and add the matching present tense ending for 'he', which is '-e'.

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