Breakdown of Il y a du sang sur sa chemise.
sur
on
il y a
there is / there are
son
his/her/its
la chemise
the shirt
le sang
the blood
Questions & Answers about Il y a du sang sur sa chemise.
Why do we need du before sang?
In English, we can just say blood, but French requires an article before almost every noun. Since blood is uncountable, we use the masculine partitive article du (which is a contraction of de + le). It essentially translates to some blood.
If the translation is his shirt, why does the French sentence use the feminine sa?
Is the letter g at the end of sang pronounced?
No, the g is completely silent. The word sang is pronounced with a nasal vowel, making it sound exactly like the words sans (without) and cent (one hundred).
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