tes
/te/
Translation
your (plural, informal)
Examples
l' .
Your parents arrived on time for dinner.
l'armoire .
I am going to put your things away in the bedroom wardrobe.
lunettes salon.
You left your glasses on the living room table.
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Your ideas for the project are really interesting.
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How are your studies going lately?
Tes is the plural form of the informal second-person possessive adjective in French, meaning "your" before any plural noun, masculine or feminine, when the speaker is on tu terms with the listener: tes parents (your parents), tes idées (your ideas). For formal address or for more than one listener, switch to vos regardless of the noun.
Going plural collapses the singular gender distinction: ton and ta both become tes. The final s is silent by itself but links as a /z/ before a vowel: tes amis is pronounced tez-amis. The matching forms in the first and third persons are mes (my) and ses (his/her/its); the plural-owner forms are nos (our), vos (your, formal/plural) and leurs (their). See the French possessives guide for how the full table fits together.
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