"The men have children."
Translation:Les hommes ont des enfants.
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To understand this clearly, 'ont' means 'have' and 'a' means 'has'?
For example:
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The boy has an apple: Le garcon a une pomme.
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The boy has apples: Le garcon a des pommes.
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The boy and the girl have apples: Le garcon et la fille ont des pommes.
Also, 'est' means 'is' and 'sont' means 'are'?
For example:
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The apples are red = Les pommes sont rouges.
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The apple is red = La pomme est rouge.
Is that correct?
l'homme is a singular form, the man. For the men, one uses hommes, but this requires les instead of l', les hommes.
"des hommes" is "some men" or just "men", while "les homes" is "THE men".
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Because les hommes is 'the men' and des hommes is 'some of the men, but not all of the men in the world'.
It's plural, so has to be les hommes. l' is used with the singular, so as to prevent two vowel sounds from being right next to each other; le homme doesn't work. It's somewhat similar to using "an" instead of "a" in front of apple or organ or enemy. You have to say "an untold story" because untold starts with a vowel sound. With "useful", on the other hand, the "u" has a "y' sound before the "oo", pronounced as if it were yuseful, so one says "a useful tool". not "an useful tool".
Well, not really. L' is short for le (when in front of a noun beginning with a vowel sound), and le is a singular form, so L' goes with the singular homme. But hommes is plural, so it needs the plural les, not the singular L'.