French Possessive Adjectives

[yvonnerosenuera]

why is it that the words''' their books''' is Leur livres --- not leurs livres

[lsfrench]

@yvonnerosenuera thank you, please read the comment about the error I made

[Marcia3015]

I love it.

BJs!

[Irina1972able]

this topic would be much easier for russian speakers

[lsfrench]

@Irina1972able thank you but what do you mean?

[styminster]

@lsfrench cause in Russian "Your" is written differently for formal and informal cases

[Irina1972able]

@lsfrench , you know, in russian language there are similarities to the frenchm for example, you can say "moja kniga" - this means "my book" feminen, "moi knigi" - my books, no gender in plural, "moj kot" - my cat, singular masculain, and i mean, that in english there are no difference for the word "my", no accordance to the gender or number of the subjects, but in russian there are different pronoun forms for diferent numbers and genders of the subjects. Your lessons are great!

[lsfrench]

@Irina1972able spassiba for this information, you can also follow me on facebook to receive daily French expressions

[Irina1972able]

@lsfrench Cher Pascal, merci pour tout, mais je ne peux pas trouver votre cite en facebook... :)

[lsfrench]

@Irina1972able Hi, le site sur facebook s'appelle frenchspanishonline

[Irina1972able]

@lsfrench Merci, je'ai vous trouve' /I'm not sure if this is grammatically correct.../ :)

[lsfrench]

@Irina1972able he he you are right because in French if you don't know it is hard to guess: je vous ai trouvé

[Irina1972able]

@lsfrench Oh, yes, I felt there is something wrong in my sentence...Merci pour la correction!

[Irina1972able]

actually, if i understand correctly, 'leur' means both 'to them' and 'their'? Thank you so much!

[taty3389]

WOOOW Merci beaucoup now I understand it better. I was totally lost and tomorrow I have my final exam on French and this is going to come out on the exam. So this was totally helpful =)) Thank you sooo much for this wonderful video. I'm glad that you gave examples at the end so we can practice what we learned. I think that's awesome and soooo helpful =))) I now understand it . =)) But i would have loved if you had given examples of (Your singular) that way we would be able to use Ton, Ta and Tes

[lsfrench]

@taty3389 thank you, i will think about your advice ;)

[jbsfx]

Many thanks, beautifully clear.

[ARASHME11]

c'est formidable. Man your are awesome.thanks  Greeting from Persia(Iran)

[lsfrench]

@ARASHME11 thank you and much more on my website!

[KidVVill]

I think you should have added an explanation that Votre Votre and Vos (your) is different from Ton Ta Tes (also your) because doesn't Votre/Vos refer to your in plural form?

[lsfrench]

@KidVVill Vous also refer to the singular formal form, so it is singular or plural

[shankuss]

thank you soooooooooo much!

[htcjunkie16]

At 8:36, shouldn't it be leurs livres?

[lsfrench]

@htcjunkie16 it is, the correction hasalreday been been made on the main website frenchspanishonline and in the comments on youtube, enjoy!

[xJG91x]

This man is truly awesome! Thank you so much!

[lsfrench]

@xJG91x hnak you, merci! Pascal, please visit my site it is free and tell your friends

[lsfrench]

sorry for the error: their books is LEURS livres. Also to clarify the pronunciation, there is no liaison when the "h" is not silent, we say: "une / hache", but there is one when the "h" is silent"une horloge" is something like "u norloge"

[jackturner1993]

aren't they pronouns?

[lsfrench]

@jackturner1993 pronouns are used instead of nouns, "mine" is a pronoun, but "my" is not, "my" alone means nothing, you need a noun with it, so we are talking here about adjectives.

[albo181]

@jackturner1993 As an English teacher, I know that many books refer to "my", "your" etc. as being possessive pronouns, primarily because, for example 'My pen' is used instead of 'Roger's Pen'. Roger is by itself a noun but here it's used as an adjective, so technically we are replacing an adjective not a noun. I feel that 'possessive adjective' more acurately describes what it is, but I know many books and teachers prefer to teach them as pronouns for the sake of simplicity.

[lsfrench]

@albo181 thank you for your explanation about what we can read on English Grammar Books, however if it is about simplicity I find easier to say that an ADjective is ADded to another word and a pronoun instead of a noun (pro+noun), thank you