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Plusieurs d'entre vous réclament l'or injustement.

Plusieurs d'entre vous réclament l'or injustement.
Several of you demand the gold unjustly.
From Lesson 468:Partitive pronouns (d'entre nous)·French

Questions & Answers about Plusieurs d'entre vous réclament l'or injustement.

Why do we say d'entre vous instead of just de vous for 'of you'?
When expressing a subset 'out of' a specific group of people, French uses d'entre followed by a stressed pronoun like nous, vous, eux, or elles. Saying plusieurs de vous sounds unnatural to native speakers; adding entre (among) is required to properly convey 'several among you'.
Why does the verb réclament end in -ent when it comes right after vous?
The subject of the sentence is the pronoun Plusieurs (Several), which is third-person plural, not vous. The phrase d'entre vous just provides extra information about who the 'several' are. Therefore, the verb must be conjugated to match Plusieurs, taking the ils/elles form réclament.
Why use réclamer here instead of demander for 'demand'?
While demander generally means 'to ask for', réclamer is much stronger. It means 'to demand' or 'to claim' something that you feel entitled to or believe is rightfully yours. Because the subject is aggressively laying claim to the gold, réclamer is the perfect fit.

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