Word
Leur maman travaille dans une entreprise.
Meaning
Their mom works at a company.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Leur maman travaille dans une entreprise.
dans
in, inside
travailler
to work
l'entreprise
the company (f)
leur
their (singular and plural forms: leur, leurs)
Questions & Answers about Leur maman travaille dans une entreprise.
Why is it leur maman and not leurs maman if "their" refers to multiple people?
In French, possessive adjectives match the thing being owned, not the owners! Even though there are multiple children (the owners), they share one mom. Since maman is singular, we use the singular leur. If they had multiple moms, it would be leurs mamans.
"Their" implies multiple people, so why does the verb travaille end in "-e" instead of the plural "-ent"?
Why use dans for "at"? Doesn't dans mean "in"?