"Il ouvre la porte."

Translation: He is opening the door.

[Beadyjean]

I am completely in agreement with the answer given, BUT I decided to answer with 'they open the door' (Ils ouvrent la porte) as I can hear no difference between the singular and plural versions. I therefore do not accept that it is an incorrect response

[Samuel270702]

If it was "they", using either ils or elles, then there would be liason with ouvrent, so it would sound like "souvrent".

[like_water]

Why is "he opens the gate" incorrect? I checked in two dictionaries (including Le Robert) and it seems "la porte" means both "door" and "gate". I'm confused.

[tia1805]

la porte means door and gate as well?

[onionstink]

How do you tell the diffrence between "il", and "il" when one means him and the other means it

[Sedona2007]

In reality, the difference is in the context of the conversation. In this sentence, there is no difference.

[Abrumf]

how do you hear the difference between "il ouvre" and "ils ouvrent" ?

[pabouk]

The difference is in liason: [iluvr] vs [ilzuvr]

[CelinaZein1]

you can kinda hear the "s" in ils i guess you just have to get used to it

[deeptendu]

Chevalerie

[ukuleilis]

"It opens the door"?

[atoxique]

Brendon Urie would not be happy about this!

[yxngbabe]

tyler joseph: he must have forgot TO CLOSE HIS DOOR

[MaureenMou]

I also cannot distinguish between il and ils in this sentence

[Beadyjean]

I received a reply explaining this from Samuel270702 above

[Moh_kamal90]

I wonder what would be the translation of the word "gate" ?

[puppy7989]

It depends what sort of gate. A free online bilingual dictionary is handy. Here are Reverso's various translations depending on the "gate" :)

http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/anglais-francais/gate

[Moh_kamal90]

Merci beaucoup

[DebLo16]

Why is ils ouvrent la porte wrong?

[Samuel270702]

Please read the other comments, this has been explained.

[CatAnna100]

I think that doulingo should acc
ept he is opening A door istead they don't accept it

[Samuel270702]

Why do you think it should accept a wrong answer?