"You carry your child."

Translation: Tu portes ton enfant.

[da-x]

"vous portez ton enfant" not valid?

[Sitesurf]

Common sense would suggest you would not talk to one and several persons at the same time.

vous portez votre enfant

tu portes ton enfant

[GaryGornik1]

May I recomend that the help then list votre first not second

[Sitesurf]

Why, since "your" always translates to "ton/ta/tes" or "votre/vos"?

[sanija55239]

Im used to
Vous portez votre enfant

[Fairlie]

Is 'enfant' automatically assumed to be male? Why is 'Tu portes t'enfant' wrong?

[Sitesurf]

"Enfant" can be masculine or feminine. When the sex of the child is not important, the noun is assumed to be masculine, by default.

<T' > does not belong to "ton/ta" (possessive adjectives), but to "tu/te" (pronouns), example:"je t'écris" (I am writing to you)

When it comes to the possessive adjectives, when the following noun starts with a vowel, like "enfant", you use "ton" enfant, whichever the sex of the child.
If the noun is feminine, like "eau", you also use "ton" to avoid the vowel hiatus : "ton eau".

[Fairlie]

Aha! That makes sense to me. Thank you.

[FerBound]

Male is the default gender when the sex of the child doesn't matter.

[Prad_Sat]

Why not, 'Tu tient ton enfant', since the 'hold' and 'carry' the child have similar meaning?

[Sitesurf]

tu tiens means that you hold the child whose feet are still on the ground

tu **portes"" means that you carry the child entirely

[Rewm]

not that similar though, one involves movement, the other doesn't

[GraceAlice1]

What about, "On porte son enfant," since in English it is more common to say, "you carry your child," instead of, "one carries one's child."

[Sitesurf]

From En to Fr, the best remains to translate "you" to "vous" or "tu".

[fPontes]

Why note "tu portes votre enfant" ?

[Sitesurf]

The object belongs to the subject:

• Tu portes ton enfant
• Vous portez votre enfant