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Voici les chocolats. Quelques-uns ont du caramel.

Voici les chocolats. Quelques-uns ont du caramel.
Here are the chocolates. A few of them have caramel.
From Lesson 243:Indefinite pronouns of subset (quelques-uns, quelques-unes)·French

Questions & Answers about Voici les chocolats. Quelques-uns ont du caramel.

Why does this sentence use quelques-uns instead of just quelques?
Quelques is an adjective meaning "a few" or "some," so it always needs a noun right after it (like quelques chocolats). Because we are dropping the noun to avoid repeating it, we use the pronoun quelques-uns ("a few of them").
How do we know to use quelques-uns rather than quelques-unes?
The pronoun must match the gender of the noun it replaces. Here, it refers back to les chocolats. Since chocolat is a masculine noun, we use the masculine form quelques-uns. If we were talking about les tartes (the tarts, feminine), we would say quelques-unes.
How do I pronounce quelques-uns ont? Are there liaisons?
Yes, there are two important liaisons here! The 's' at the end of quelques connects to uns with a "z" sound. Then, the 's' at the end of uns connects to the vowel in ont, also making a "z" sound. So it sounds like "quelque-Z-un-Z-ont".
Why is it du caramel and not just caramel?
In French, you almost always need an article before a noun. Because caramel is treated as an uncountable ingredient here (meaning "some caramel"), we use the partitive article du (which is a mandatory contraction of de + le).

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