"J'ai jeté les chaussures que ce chien a mordues."

Translation: I threw away the shoes that this dog bit.

[ocelotish]

Is this the verb we'd normally use for a dog chewing something or is it a bit stilted?

[BetseyLang]

Agreed - "bit" sounds to me like it could be a single bite. If it's bad enough to throw them out, I'd expect them to be chewed, not just bitten.

[EW5PJ1A3]

I have reported "chewed" as should be accepted. It may not be a literal translation but I assume it's what the sentence means.

[-BigWayne19-]

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[Vic3141]

I threw OUT the shoes that this dog bit

[Gail374761]

American english speaker here. Curious about the semantic difference between bit and chewed in french. We definitely would say chewed, as a single bite would not suffice to throw away a pair of otherwise perfectly decent shoes

[Vic3141]

Australian here. The dog bites a living thing, a person, another dog. The dog chews objects.

[CathrynWel1]

This Canadian also finds the choice of "bit" inappropriate. Dogs frequently "chew" shoes.

[5EarlofIckenham]

Why is "mordues" used here instead of "mordu" ?

[Jojo553168]

The past participle agrees with the direct object when the auxiliary is avoir and if the direct object (chaussures) comes before the verb in the sentence.

     → Le chien a mordu les chaussures.
     → Voilà les chaussures qu'il a mordues.

[5EarlofIckenham]

Thank you. This makes perfect sense.

[John773311]

somewhere else in this lesson "a mordues" was translated as chewed

[Franl17]

oh come on it's CHEWED!!

[Martyn413385]

The French do have a word for "chew" = "mâcher". Would that also be better French? However it would be feasible for a dog to destroy a delicate shoe with a single bite!