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In English, the translation is just "Things", so why does the French sentence use les?
In French, you almost never use a noun without an article (like le, la, or les) in front of it. When talking about things in a general sense, French uses the definite article. So, general "things" translates to les choses (literally: "the things"). Why is there an "s" at the end of faciles?
In French, adjectives must match the noun they describe. Because les choses (the things) is plural, the adjective facile (easy) also needs to be plural. We do this by adding an "s" to the end, making it faciles. Do I pronounce the "s" at the end of les, choses, and faciles?
No, the "s" at the end of all three of these words is silent. Les sounds similar to "lay", and choses and faciles are pronounced exactly the same as their singular forms (chose and facile). Why do we use sont here instead of est?
Sont is a form of the verb être (to be). It is the form used for "they" (ils or elles). Because les choses is a plural noun (meaning it can be replaced by "they"), we must use sont (are) instead of est (is). Learn Les choses sont faciles ici and more in French
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