"Si nos fils déménagent en Irlande, suivons-les-y."

Translation: If our sons move to Ireland, let's follow them there.

[Dawn940425]

creepy parents

[dominique.dom3]

en francais suivons les y ne veux rein dire la traduction est tout simplement
suivons les voila

[Louradour5]

ça veut dire quelque chose, et j'imagine que c'est pour coller à la version anglaise ou l'inverse. C'est juste qu'on ne s'exprime pas comme ça, je ne me vois pas dire cette phrase, plutôt "si...., nous les suivrons".

[LisaLisko]

Where does the word lets come from in this sentence

[SeanFogart4]

ons

[_M_M_.]

"suivons-les-y" is a command for "nous". Note that there is no listed subject in this phrase, which (like in English) means it is a command.

[kmargittai]

I'm getting SO TIRED of getting marked "wrong" on the repeat ones!!! Especially on the tests! I just lost THREE hearts on spoken ones in on go! And I'll say it exactly the same way the next time and it'll be accepted!

[alexmiller1201]

You can turn the speaking practice mode off in your settings. Or select "I can't speak now" when you encounter a question like that and it will turn it off for an hour.

[kmargittai]

I do that when I see that one is not registering what I say. If none of the words turn green, I do that, but sometimes I'm not fast enough and it still marks me wrong. And sometimes it doesn't STAY turned off. I sometimes get another speaking one right away! I just had to vent.

[Mike_Batty]

I am confused. In the previous exercise, in response to "let's do our Christmas shopping on line" I put "faisons-nous nos achats de Noël en ligne" and was marked wrong. The explanation was "The imperative mood cannot have a subject. And subject-verb inversion is for interrogative sentences, so your sentence means "Do we do our Christmas shopping online", only lacking a question mark." And in this exercise, "suivons-les-y" sure looks the same. What am I missing?

[kmargittai]

There's not a subject. les is them - the object, and y is there.

[Mike_Batty]

Of course. Thanks. Sometimes the obvious isn't so obvious!
Have a lingot.

[lisaeoc]

Can't this be translated, "if our sons move to Ireland, we are following them there." ?