"Which shoes are yours?"

Translation: Quelles sont tes chaussures ?

[Omega137]

What is the problem with: ''Lesquelles chaussures sont vôtres''

[patlaf]

Hopefully a native speaker will see this and tell me if it is correct, but for now I believe there are 2 problems:

1) "Lesquelles" is a pronoun (except in strange cases), not an adjective so you won't want to use it to modify chaussures like you have in your sentence. If you want to say "which shoes" then you want to use an interrogative adjective (just "quelles")

2) Since it is a noun, you can't just say "vôtres" you need to include its article, so it would have to be "les vôtres"

All together, you should be able to say: "quelles chaussures sont les vôtres"

[Sitesurf]

You've got my blessing!

[cjdbass]

Makes more sense to me than "Quelles sont tes chaussures?" which is Duo's preferred translation.

[yourenamehere]

it's basically the same thing, except with tu instead of vous, and the phrasing being "which are your shoes" instead of "Which shoes are yours"

both work, though the given translation is more natural

[cherylkuchta]

What is wrong with "lesquelles sont vos chaussures?"

[JaniceWeny]

I put "Lesquelles sont tes chaussures?" what's wrong with that?

[Johnni0]

LESquelles is apparently not accepted here. Only quelles. - see Patlaf's explanation above (1)

[Sitesurf]

Nothing wrong, "yours" can be "tes" or "vos", but the construction in English would probably be: which are your shoes?"

[depan]

And what is wrong with this? It is the same message with just a slightly different wording

[ss1993]

Pourquoi je ne peux pas dire: "Lesquelles chaussures sont à toi?"

[Sitesurf]

Because "lesquelles" is a pronoun (replacement for a noun) and not an adjective qualifying a noun, like "quelles".

Would you say "which ones shoes are yours?"?

[WowSereneDoge]

The shoes are to/for you. < That's what you typed.

[hugoyan6]

Why 'lesquelles sont vos chaussures' is wrong?

[Sitesurf]

This proposal is accepted.

[MarkAbajian]

As of 22 June 2014, "Lequelles sont vos chaussures?" is still not being accepted. Please clarify?

[Sitesurf]

lesquelles sont vos chaussures ? = which (ones) are your shoes?

[vsanon]

Why cant I say "quel chaussures êtes-vous?"

[yourenamehere]

That translates to "Which shoes are you"

[WowSereneDoge]

Quel is singular, chaussures are plural.

[RainbowTearz]

Why does it not accept this: "Quels chaussures sont vos?"

[Sitesurf]

chaussures is feminine: quelles

sont à vous = yours (not your)

[jolynnedougherty]

As an alternative correct answer, they offered "Quelles chaussures sont Les tiennes?" Is there a reason that the Les would be capitalized or would that be an error?

[Sitesurf]

Jolynne, "les" should not be capitalized. Could you pls give me the ref of this sentence: skill/lesson? thanks.

[sjlefavo]

Quelles chaussures sont à vous... I'm not familiar with the construction 'à vous'. Little help? Merci

[Sitesurf]

This construction is an easy alternative to possessive pronouns (les tiennes for "à toi" in fem plur + 23 other versions!)

• ces chaussures sont à vous = ces chaussures sont les vôtres

[boyohazzard]

I used votre instead of vos and got it wrong. What is the difference here? Does it have to do with plural/singular?

[Sitesurf]

"votre/vos" is an adjective and like all adjectives, it has to agree with the noun it qualifies.
in this case, "chaussures" is plural, so you need "vos", plural of "votre"