u/Elamtrademark

Coucou !

I need some support on fully understand when to use a possessive or definite article for body parts. I know you can use the indirect or reflexive pronouns and then a definite article:

«Il lui a cassé la main !»

«Je me brosse les dents chaque soir.»

But I came across a sentence such as:

«Si je voyais un ours, je le prendrais dans mes bras.»

I'm just a bit confused, why is it not just les bras? Is it because it is using a direct pronoun of le?

Merci 😊

Edit: meant to say direct pronoun of le

Bonjour tout le monde !

With regards to the interrogative «À quelle heure...» is it grammatically correct to construct a sentence as:

À quelle heure + [verb] + [subject]

«À quelle heure commence la fête ?»

I'm just a little confused as I know there is three other ways to say such a sentence:

«La fête commence à quelle heure ?»

«À quelle heure est-ce que la fête commence ?»

«À quelle heure la fête commence-t-elle ?»

Merci d'avance !

Bonjour tout le monde!

I've been struggling to find if the use of "Cette année" is appropriate for dates and how you would use them, for example:

"Elle est née le 5 mars..."

Is it appropriate to add "de cette année" or "cette année" to this sentence, or would you simply put the current year.

Merci d'avance