What is 'des hommes' when translated from French to English?

Answer 1

"Of the men," "some men," and "the men's" are just three English equivalents of the French phrase des hommes.

Specifically, the word des functions as a partitive or a possessive preposition. It means "of the" -- from the combination of the preposition de ("of") and the feminine/masculine definite plural article les ("the") -- or "some" according to context. The masculine noun hommes translates as "males, men." Regardless of meaning or use, the pronunciation will be "dey zuhm" in French.