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"Whose horse is it?"
Translation:À qui est le cheval ?
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What are the rules for when to use "Est-ce"? I'm getting more and more confused the more lessons I complete. I typed in "Est-ce à qui le cheval?" And it was wrong obviously.
"est-ce" means "is it", which would not make sense in English either (is it whose the horse?)
-is it your horse? = est-ce ton cheval ?
A qui cheval est-il - that won't work? (again, sorry can't put accent over the 'a' on this keyboard).
As alternatives to the correct answer given you could use "ce cheval est à qui ?" or "il est à qui, ce cheval ?"
"dont" is only a relative pronoun, you cannot use it as an interrogative pronoun (unlike whose)
Can somebody explain why "C'est le cheval de qui?" and not with article UN? Thank you
"whose horse is it?" is asking about one horse that is pointed to (it).
in French: "à qui est le cheval ?" or "c'est le cheval de qui ?" correctly translate that question.
"C'est un cheval de qui ?" sounds really weird. At the very least it could mean that you are pointing not to the owner of the horse but to his parents or to the artist who painted the horse or sculpted it.
Can someone break down this sentence, I literally don't understand how the construction is made. Where does the "ce" come from in "A qui ce cheval est il?"
Whose horse is it? can translate to "à qui est le/ce cheval" but we usually use "ce" in the case of pointing to something and "it is" is often similar to "this is".
- whose = à qui (possessive)
- is = est
- horse + it = (ce/le) cheval
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When do you hyphenate when 2 vowels are together and when do you just leave it? A qu'est ce cheval
Hyphens are required whenever Verb and Subject pronoun are reversed: est-ce, est-il, suis-je, êtes-vous ...
Elisions (drop the final vowel and replace it by an apostrophe) are required with "que" but forbidden with "qui"; "qu'est" but "qui est"
On the multiple choice version they have " De qui est-ce le singe ?" What does this mean - the 'de qui' bit
SO you're suggesting 'a qui' and de qui' are the same thing, however o the multiple choice only 'a qui' was accepted?
No, that is not what I suggest, because it depends on the construction of the sentence:
à qui est ce cheval ? il est à mon frère
c'est le cheval de qui ? c'est le cheval/celui de mon frère
Is the construction of the sentence the only difference between the two? That was confusing me, as well.
Ce is masculine (ce chat), cette is feminine (cette chatte).
The only exception is when the noun starts with a vowel sound, when you have to use "cet" for masculine -- Cet homme, cette femme.
They mean exactly the same thing, though!
