Word
Leurs choix sont toujours surprenants.
Meaning
Their choices are always surprising.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Leurs choix sont toujours surprenants.
être
to be
toujours
always
leur
their (singular and plural forms: leur, leurs)
le choix
the choice
Questions & Answers about Leurs choix sont toujours surprenants.
Why does surprenants have an s at the end if present participles are usually invariable?
When a present participle ending in -ant is used purely as an adjective to describe a noun, it follows the normal adjective rules and agrees in gender and number. Since it describes the masculine plural noun choix, we add an s. If it were acting as an actual verb rather than an adjective, it would stay as surprenant.
How do we know choix is plural in this sentence?
I often forget when to put an s on leur. Why does it have one here?
As a possessive adjective, leur means "their" and it must agree with the thing being owned, not the people who own it. Since the thing being owned is plural (choix), you use the plural form leurs. If they had made only one choice, it would be leur choix.
Why is toujours placed after sont instead of before it?