Ce sont

Stephen B.B2KwizIQ community member

Ce sont

Hi, why ‘ce sont’ rather than ‘ces sont’? It’s plural. Thanks, Stephen

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Anne D.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

As so often, that’s just the way it is, ce sont, is the correct phrase. To make things more complicated a) c’est can be used in colloquial spoken French for plural nouns (c’est mes amis) and b) for making a general comment about singular or plural nouns, with an invariable masculine singular adjective.

Lawless goes into it fully:

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/expressions/cest/

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/cest-vs-il-est/

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