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which of these is correct?
de quel pays êtes vous?
or
de quels pays êtes vous?
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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on
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Literally speaking, both are grammatical. But they mean different things, and one is a much more plausible thing to say.
"De quel pays êtes-vous?" means "Which country are you from?". The word quel, written without the final -s, is singular.
"De quels pays êtes-vous?" means "Which countries are you from?", with the spelling quels indicating a plural. (Note this is just a spelling difference: the two questions are pronounced identically.)
Or in other words: the word pays just happens to be written with a final -s in the singular, but that doesn't affect the spelling of quel(s).
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