"Il enlève ses vêtements avant de faire le ménage."
Translation:He is removing his clothes before doing the housework.
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Il se déshabille avant de faire le ménage ? Or is he just removing a pile of his clothes that he left lying around before he does the housework?
I think both are possible, since enlever can mean either "take off" or "take out".
I wonder how this would be interpreted by native speakers. Duo's translation is ambiguous, and maybe the same is true of the original French wording.
Strange sentence! And, i agree with ErnestGree4 ... before doing THE housework. would be slightly less ambiguous.
That is correct. Maybe he just works really hard doing the housework.
This could be either "his clothes" or "these clothes" when translating the audio. Therefor, both "ces" and "ses" should be accepted.
This would only be said if we were watching someone do it, it is very much in the active present. If we were diuscussing a habit, we would say he removes his clothes etc
"He removes his clothes before doing housework."
I put this to suggest a general or habitual occurrence. It was accepted.
French present tense can mean different things. There is no choice of different present tenses like we have in English. (removes, is removing, does remove... As opposed to merely enlève)
"He is moving his clothes before doing the housework", The difference here is very subtle, "the housework" vs "housework".
I thought he was picking up his clothes (from the floor) before doing the housework but obviously not
