Les or leur?

[Ladd Russo]

Hi.

I want to say "I've just found out about their decision."

My version was "Je viens d'apprendre leur decision." but the book I'm learning for says the correct variant is "Je viens d'apprendre les decision."

So which is it? I don't know what to believe, everyone except the guy who wrote that book seems to think that it's correct to use "leur".

 

Oh and also, could you help me and translate the phrase "tell this to him"? Is it "racontres-en lui" or "racontre-lui en" or I just use cela...?

[Chris]

I don't understand how your book could say "les decisions" in that case. You must use "les" when you want to say "the decisions"

leur decision is definitely what you want

(I'm French)

[Erwan]

As Chris says, it's definitely leur décision.

A very formal way could be : Je viens de prendre connaissance de leur décision.

 

You can translate "tell this to him" by Raconte lui (be careful the verb is raconter and not racontrer) or Dis le lui

[Alexandre Therrien]

their = leur.

A possessive adjective, meaning a word that modifies the noun to determine the possession.

Like :

My = Mon/Ma/Mes

Your = Ton/Ta/Mes

Their =Leur/Leurs

 

Remember : The adjective in French is always agree with the noun.  Hence, if it was more than one decision, it would be Leurs.

 

Les is an article. It means The (plural).

 

Both forms are grammatically OK, though one defines who's decision it is. In comparison to the English version, LEUR must be used.

 

***

 

Raconte-lui is the correct way. You do not need the pronoun EN which means OF THAT.

 Racontes-en à lui would mean Tell of that to him.

 

As opposed to IT (the thing you talked about)

Dis-le lui

or

 

Racontes-lui 

[Ladd Russo]

Thanks, everyone!