"It is a boy."

Translation: C'est un garçon.

[thelittleteapot]

Why is "il est un garcon" incorrect?

[Sitesurf]

The French is fairly logical in this respect:

this/that/it is an object: c'est un objet
this/that/it is an animal: c'est un animal
he is a boy: c'est un garçon
she is a girl: c'est une fille
they are friends: ce sont des amis.

[pjpike]

He is a boy

[marziotta]

I agree with you, thelittleteapot, but I don't know French that much. ;)

[rafaelfermont]

"fils" is not correct?

[Sitesurf]

No it is not, because "fils" is "son".

[cosmicssjgoku]

because French has different tense for he

[RoryPowis]

therein lies the rub

[RachelGirling]

Why can this be accepted, but in another thread "c'est un jeune homme" is not? (Translated to only "he is a young man", not accepted as "it is a young man".
Here is an example where it's ok to say "it is a boy", but in the other thread, it was claimed to be poor english?

[Sitesurf]

"it is a young man" is probably as poor as "it is a boy". So I changed the best translation for "c'est un garçon" to "he is a boy".