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Leur colocataire est curieuse et pose beaucoup de questions sur leur village.
Meaning
Their roommate is curious and asks many questions about their village.
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Breakdown of Leur colocataire est curieuse et pose beaucoup de questions sur leur village.
être
to be
et
and
de
of
la question
the question
Questions & Answers about Leur colocataire est curieuse et pose beaucoup de questions sur leur village.
Why is it leur colocataire and not leurs colocataires?
Leur agrees with the number of the noun that follows, not with how many owners there are.
- Leur colocataire = their roommate (one roommate shared by several people)
- Leurs colocataires = their roommates (several roommates)
In the sentence, there is one roommate, so you use:
- singular possessive: leur
- singular noun: colocataire
- singular verb: est (not sont)
So Leur colocataire est… = Their roommate is…
Both times we see leur in the sentence. Are they exactly the same grammatically?
Yes. Both leur in:
- Leur colocataire est curieuse…
- …sur leur village.
are the same word: the 3rd person plural possessive adjective meaning their.
They are:
- invariable in gender (same form with masculine or feminine nouns)
- variable in number (change to leurs before a plural noun)
So:
- leur colocataire = their roommate (singular)
- leur village = their village (singular)
- leurs colocataires / leurs villages = their roommates / their villages (plural)