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In French, determiners agree in gender and number with the noun they precede. So their is translated by leur + masculine or feminine singular noun (leur chien, leur maison) and by leurs + plural noun (leurs enfants).
When their is stressed à eux is added after the noun : their house = leur maison à eux. For their used with parts of the body ⇒ The human body.det leur/leurs.

Big English-French dictionary. 2003.

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