Leur or leurs for enfants
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Leur or leurs for enfants
Is enfants not plural so the objective pronoun is leurs? Leur would equal "un enfant"?
You are confusing 2 different things
1 The use of 'leur' as an indirect object pronoun meaning 'them' in the lesson you linked -
and
2 The use of leur/leurs as possessive adjectives as per the lesson I have linked below :
Notre/nos/votre/vos/leur/leurs = our/your/their (French Possessive Adjectives)
Maarten is correct. Just to give you some examples:
Je leur parle. -- I speak to them. (COI)
Ça leur a fait du bien. -- That did them good. (COI)
Les deux sont leurs enfants. -- Both are their kids. (Possessive pronoun, plural)
C'est leur valise. -- This is their suitcase. (Possessive pronoun, singular)
Ce sont leurs valises. -- These are their suitcases. (Possessive pronoun, plural)
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