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"French Language learners, Hear me out......"

Today I gad french exam and there was this question:
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Complete:
-Le President.......a remercies de leurs efforts.
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So I thought that the reasonable answer would be "Leurs" but when I got out of the exam every body said I'm wrong and the answer is "Les". So which is correct ?

~Darling~ wrote:
> Mattributé wrote:
> Yes, yes you do.
>
> Well done.
>
> Comment t'appelle tu?
>
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> Je m'appelle Darling, et toi?

shouldn't that be "et tu" ?!?

I'm proud to say i got an E in French GCSE, and i would have got an F if it wasnt for Altavista and my dumb French teacher who knew i didn't know any Frech in class but doing coursework at home made me billiant at it.

stupid fools.

We didn't do coursework, thankfully.

I quite enjoyed my french tests, was tres bien (as much as a test can be)

Simon Says wrote:
> ~Darling~ wrote:
> Mattributé wrote:
> Yes, yes you do.
>
> Well done.
>
> Comment t'appelle tu?
>
>
> Je m'appelle Darling, et toi?
>
> shouldn't that be "et tu" ?!?

nope, it is indeed "et toi?" (object pronoun) - be impressed

oh and i reckon it's les for the original post. i'm trying to give up french but doing an exchange in the summer so i've still got some of it. I think Leurs would mean The President thanked to them for their efforts. While Les would just skip the To.

I just did Stupid Standard Grade French (which had a folio which was great and easy) and then sadly Higher French which i've probably messed up completely. But I could do the grammar, and little else. Why don't the french just learn english and give up their language? It would make things so much simpler.

'Les' is effectively a plural 'the'.

Les chiens - the dogs.
Le chien - the dog.

If you're saying 'the' to a plural, you use les.

les is also the direct object pronoun of ils and elles. e.g. it means them.