by the somme river
"sommes-nous ..." means 'are we ..' in French.
I am learning about the Battle of the Somme right now. I'm sure that Haig achieved 2 out of 3 of his objectives. He relieved the French and I think was the second one he re-captured a place? Sorry that I don't fully know, but I think that that was one of them. Hope this helped a little bit.
Nous ne sommes pas français
"j'ai quatre personnes dans ma famille" (but "nous sommes quatre [personnes] dans la famille" or "nous sommes une famille de quatre personnes" are better)
by the somme river
WW1 at the Battle of the Sommes.
The Battle of Cantigny was fought in Cantigny, Sommes, France.
"sommes" is a form of the verb "être", to be."nous sommes" = we are.
"Nous sommes" means "we are" in English.
Sommes-nous .... means 'are we ...' in French.
"sommes-nous ..." means 'are we ..' in French.
"we are" tanslates as -- 'nous sommes' : 'nous' meaning we and 'sommes' meaning are
Nous sommes .... depuis .... means "we are ... since ..." Ex: nous sommes boulangers depuis 1980 (we are bakers since 1980)
"(ne) sommes-nous pas" means "aren't we ..." in English. This is a question form from "nous ne sommes pas ..." (we are not ...)
to obtain the independence of the slaves
"We went" in French is "nous sommes allés" for a group of males or mixed gender, and "nous sommes allées" for a group of females.