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Où est leur marteau pour réparer le lit ?

Où est leur marteau pour réparer le lit ?
Where is their hammer to repair the bed?
From Lesson 96:Sequence connectors (d'abord, puis...)·French

Questions & Answers about Où est leur marteau pour réparer le lit ?

Why is it leur without an 's', since "their" refers to more than one person?
In French, possessive adjectives agree with the thing being owned, not the owners. Because there is only one hammer (marteau), you use the singular leur. If they were looking for multiple hammers, it would be leurs marteaux.
Why use pour before réparer? Doesn't pour just mean "for"?
pour usually means "for", but when it is placed directly in front of an infinitive verb like réparer (an unconjugated verb ending in -er, -ir, or -re), it means "in order to". So pour réparer translates perfectly to "to repair" or "in order to repair".
Can I keep the standard word order and ask Où leur marteau est?
No, that sounds unnatural in French. After short question words like où (where), quand (when), or comment (how), you generally put the verb before the noun subject. That is why the verb est comes right after où.
Since this lesson is about sequence words like d'abord and puis, how would I use them to answer this question?
You could use them to lay out the steps of the plan! For example, you might answer: D'abord, on trouve le marteau, puis on répare le lit (First, we find the hammer, then we repair the bed).

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