Ils sucent encore leur pouce?

Pekka J.A1Kwiziq community member

why the singular pouce here and not the plural pouces, as they each have a thumb/pouce and not a mutual thumb, which they all would be sucking?

Pekka from Helsinki

Asked 6 years ago

CécileNative French expert teacher in KwiziqCorrect answer

Hi Pekka,

Interesting question!

It's probably because you can only suck one thumb at a time and that if you said in French,

Ils sucent encore leurs pouces -

it would indicate you they (ils) were sucking the other people's thumbs as well...

very odd ...

Hope this helps!

Like26 years ago

Pekka J.A1Kwiziq community member

Thanks and thumbs/ pouces up!

Like06 years ago

why the singular pouce here and not the plural pouces, as they each have a thumb/pouce and not a mutual thumb, which they all would be sucking?

Pekka from Helsinki

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