Help with sont = être

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Permalink Reply by Tatiana Popova on November 3, 2009 at 5:01am

Hello Daniel.

"sont" is the third person plural (used with they, ex. ils sont..., elles sont..., which is translated as "they are...") of the verb "être" (translated as "be") . The verb "être" in the corresponding form acts almost in the same way as English "be".
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Michaels on November 3, 2009 at 10:37am

Thank you Tatiana,

I had sont down in my notebook as "are" but did not really know why. Deductive reasoning I suppose. Now I know for sure.

Your snowflake avitar is what we are about to get here.

Dan

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Permalink Reply by Esther on November 5, 2009 at 10:02pm

Sont is one of the many ways to conjugate the word etre,
the proper conjugation for the present is: je-suis, tu-es, il/elle/on-est, nous-somme, vous-etes, ils/elles-sont
the proper meaning of the word no matter which "person" (first, second, etc.) does not change.

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