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"Which shoes are yours?"
Translation:¿Cuáles zapatos son tuyos?
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Both tus and sus are correct. Explanation: There is an informal way to address you = tú (notice the accent), which goes with tu=your, or tus=your when you possess many objects (in this case shoes). The formal way is you=usted (or ustedes for "plural you"), which goes with su=your and sus=your for many objects. This form (su/sus) is also used for his, her, its, their. These rules also apply for most verbs: Tú comes; él/ella/usted come; ustedes/ellos/ellas comen. Hope this helps (and that I'm not wrong).
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Yes, and the possessive pronoun for ustedes, ellos and ellas is also sus! (As well as for usted, él and ella)
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Son is 3rd person plural, while eres is 2nd person singular. Shoes/Zapatos is in plural in this sentence.
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I think it was marked wrong because cuáles son tus zapatos means Which are your shoes? and not Which shoes are yours?. This would be Cuáles zapatos son tuyos. (Yes, it's more or less the same -but not exactly. Hope it helps).
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It'S the difference between "your" = "tu(s)" and "yours" = "tuyo(s)".
Son tus zapatos: They are your shoes.
Los zapatos son tuyos: The shoes are yours.
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"cuáles sus zapatos" means which your shoes (or which his shoes or which her shoes). So: no, it wouldn't be an acceptable answer.
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i answered with the sentence 'cuales son zapatos tuyos?' and was marked wrong. the error that i've apparently made is that i didn't use los. the correct sentence as being displayed is 'cuales son los zapatos tuyos?'
can anyone explain why is this so?
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i wanted the sentence to mean 'which shoes are yours' . and yours reminded me of the possessive determiner tuyo and i wanted to use that while forming the question. apparently, i forgot to use los too..but los is the definite article. how does using that in the question help?
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well, the sentence 'cuales son los zapatos tuyos' that is being displayed by DL as correct does give a sense of 'which of the' in english as los is used in the sentence. so 'cuales son los zapatos tuyos' might be a correct translation of which of the shoes are yours. i'm still confused about the placement of los and tuyos and tus! also, is it a rule in spanish that in a question the verb always comes right after the question word?
Akkic, I think your mistake was to put the 'son' before 'zapatos'. Your answer reads 'which are shoes yours'. 'Cuáles zapatos son tuyos' would be correct I believe - which is the corrected answer I was given after putting 'cuáles zapatos son sus' as my answer. The answer 'cuáles son tus zapatos' seems the neatest answer though.
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No, tuyo/tuya/tuyos/tuyas must match the noun it modifies (here: zapatos) by number and gender and, not with the person(s) (a man/woman/boy/girl/monkey/whatever) who possess the object.
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eres is 2nd person sing. = you are. Here you need plural, because its shoes.
tus = your, here you need yours = tuyos.
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It's the difference between "your" and "yours". This you could have found out easily by reading the other comments...
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Qual doesn't exist I believe. Probably you mean "cuál" which is the sigular form of "cuáles" (Cuáles son sus zapatos? Cuál es su zapato?).