Learn French: Mets tes affaires dans le sac. - Put your things in the bag.

Mets tes affaires dans le sac.

Put your things in the bag.

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The lesson teaches the present tense of mettre, but this is a command. How does that work?

In French, you make a command by taking the present tense form and dropping the subject pronoun (like tu). For the irregular verb mettre (to put), the tu form is tu mets. Dropping the tu gives us the command Mets (Put).

Why does affaires mean 'things' here? Doesn't it mean 'business'?

It can mean 'business' (like in un homme d'affaires for 'a businessman'). However, in everyday casual French, les affaires is the most common way to refer to your personal 'things,' 'stuff,' or 'belongings.'

Why do we use tes instead of ton or ta?

Tes is the plural form of 'your' when talking to someone you call tu. Because affaires is plural (notice the -s at the end), you must use the plural possessive tes, no matter if the noun is masculine or feminine.

Why use dans le instead of au for 'in the' bag?