the exercise about the new green car

Ted M.B1Kwiziq community member

In the exercise about the new green car with the brown leather seats, one alternate answer was ‘Ils sont fait en cuir.’ The best answer was ‘Il sont en cuir’. Present tense. Was the alternate answer in passe compose? If so, wouldn’t that be ‘ils ont fait en cuir?’

This question relates to:French lesson "Conjugate être in the present tense in French (Le Présent)"

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CécileNative French expert teacher in KwiziqCorrect answer

Hi Ted,

The sentence -

Ils sont fait en cuir = They are made of leather

is a sentence in a passive voice so the verb is still in the present but as a passive verb -

être fait de

rather than the active verb -

faire

Take a look at the following lesson to explain this further if need be -

Forming La Voix Passive with simple tenses in French (French Passive Voice)

Hope this helps!

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Ted M. asked:

the exercise about the new green car

In the exercise about the new green car with the brown leather seats, one alternate answer was ‘Ils sont fait en cuir.’ The best answer was ‘Il sont en cuir’. Present tense. Was the alternate answer in passe compose? If so, wouldn’t that be ‘ils ont fait en cuir?’

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