"Ils ont des chemises bleues."
Translation:They have blue shirts.
January 2, 2013
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The clue is to hear if the s is voiced or not. Ils ont - voiced s (z), but ils sont - unvoiced s (s). The s is pronounced voiced when it comes between two vowels.
In any case, you can usually tell by the grammar, like with this sentence. Since ils is masculine and chemises is feminine, the sentence would be ungrammatical with sont
In french, ALL nouns must have an article. In English, this isn't the case, as with plurals it's grammatically correct to choose whether to have the article with it. In french, it isn't grammatical to say just 'chemises', you should say 'des chemises'. Even though it's literally translated to 'some shirts', when put in context, it's used in the same way English would just use 'shirts'.