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- "C'est un garçon."
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My French wife says it should be translated "it's a boy". he is a boy would be, "il est un garçon"
I agree. I've only been taking French for about a year but when I read the sentence out loud, I read it as "It's a boy".
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"Il est un garçon" is not correct French. Good examples on the use of "c'est" vs "il est" can be found here: http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa032500.htm
So according to your link; 'Il est garçon' or C'est un garçon' would both be correct?
"Il est garçon" makes no sense since "garçon" is not an adjective or a profession. We don't say "He is boy" in English.
I agree .not a native french speaker but heard it growing up in New Orleans . the phares does not inply a gender at all .but( il or elle est) does...that had me confuse alittle too
They have changed it as i put it's a boy and got the question correct
High school French taught me C'est was pronounced like say, instead of like set. I am hearing this correctly, yes?
true, but when (c'est) is followed by (un)/(une) it is pronounced as setan/ setune.
It's very common in French. It's called a liaison i think. They do it a lot.
Yea .last letters in french are never pronanced but are only remember haha
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If "c'est" is followed by a word that begins with a vowel, like in this sentence, then you pronounce "t". In case of "C'est la vie" (It's life), you don't pronounce "t" because it's followed by a consonant "l".
So, if "C'est" is in relation to a male, then what would the feminine alternative be?
"C'est" would remain the same. It would be, "C'est une fille." Only the article changes from "un" to "une"
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Because the next word is "un," a word beginning with a vowel. She says "C'est un garçon," because if she'd said "Cet un garçon," it would mean "This a boy," which makes no grammatical sense in either language.
I picked 'It is a boy' and it was correct. Though duo translates it to 'He is a boy'.
I can only imagine "he is a boy" to be the correct translation if it was answering the question "quelle sexe est il?"
1) The right question would be :" De quel sexe est-il ?" (speaking about a baby for instance. Here the "il" is neuter) 2)"It's a boy (or It is a boy)" is the correct translation, because if you ask this question, it's because you know nothing about the sex. So "It" is the unidentified for whitch you receive an answer ("It's a boy", It's a girl", "We don't know"). However, "He's a boy" or "She's a girl" won't be incorrect.
Recognizing a random figure as a boy, or calling a definitive person a boy... are these the same phrase in french?
Ie. "The blurry figure in the image appears to be a boy" vs "This person is a boy"
my answer was : this is a child but duolingo says : You used the wrong word. This is a lad.
