"Il dirige ses animaux vers leur nourriture."
Translation:He steers his animals toward their food.
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oh god i still have SOOO much to go to get a good french ear.
After seeing your comment and listening to it a couple more times(15+) the R is DEFINITELY in there. The 'eu' sound resembles the 'a' sound so much to me and leur is spelled out so quickly that my brain just completely seemed to block out the 'r' and just went with 'la'. This is my hypothesis at least!
Just listen for some faint gargle sound. French love them gargles. :)
English question from a native English-speaker: Is there a difference between "toward" and "towards"?
Don't know how long ago this was asked, but in case anyone is still wondering, there is no difference at all; "towards" is probably a little more common in Britain, "toward" in the US, but both are correct anywhere.
How can I remember when it's "leur" and when it's "leurs"? I mean, how can I remember that it refers to the thing(s) and not to the person(s)?
It is not a matter of things or persons.
"leurs" is always a possessive adjective, agreeing to a plural, masculine or feminine noun:
- leurs chaussures, leurs enfants (their)
"leur" can be the singular for of the latter:
- leur chaussure, leur enfant (their)
"leur" can also be a pronoun meaning "to them" everytime the verb is constructed with preposition "à":
- je leur donne un gâteau (I give them a cake or I give a cake to them)
'He leads his animals to their food' is accepted and is a more natural translation than the current given one, IMO.
I completely misunderstood the beginning and wrote: "Ils dirigent Ces animaux. .." Should that sound different from "Il dirige ses animaux"? Thank you.
There is no difference in dictation between "ces" and "ses", so both are valid.
Thank you, amazing Sitesurf. What would we do if you didn't surf these sites? And what about "ils dirigent" and "il dirige"? Do they sound different? (Sorry, you probably already replied to similar questions 20 times ;)
No problem, my fate here is to repeat, again and again ;-)
Il dirige vs ils dirigent, similarly to elle dirige vs elles dirigent actually sound the same.
And the case will repeat with all verbs of the 1st group (infinitive in -er, except "aller"). There are tons of them!
It wouldn't really make sense to say "their foods," so I assume the same applies in French.
Why isn't the second s in "ses" pronounced? The next word starts with a wovel!
Were you listening to the slow version? I hear the liaison clearly in the regular speed version. In the slow version, each word is pronounced separately, so you will never hear liaisons in that mode.
nothing in this sentence indicates "her" as opposed to "his" yet the given correct reply says "her animals"
No, yet we have no good reason to think that these animals would be someone else's.
