Word
Ils portent tout le bois eux-mêmes sans aucune aide.
Meaning
They carry all the wood themselves without any help.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Ils portent tout le bois eux-mêmes sans aucune aide.
ils
they (masculine/mixed)
sans
without
tout
all, everything
porter
to wear
Questions & Answers about Ils portent tout le bois eux-mêmes sans aucune aide.
Why is it eux-mêmes with an s at the end, and why is there a hyphen?
Could we place eux-mêmes at the very end of the sentence?
You have some flexibility, but putting it at the very end (sans aucune aide eux-mêmes) sounds awkward because it is separated too far from the subject Ils. Placing it right after the object (tout le bois eux-mêmes) is the most natural way to emphasize that they did the carrying themselves. You could also safely say Ils portent eux-mêmes tout le bois.
Why do we use aucune here instead of quelque or n'importe quelle to mean "any"?