Word
Nous avons un appartement spacieux.
Meaning
We have a spacious apartment.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Nous avons un appartement spacieux.
un
a / an (masculine)
nous
we / us (object pronoun)
avoir
to have
l'appartement
the apartment (m)
Questions & Answers about Nous avons un appartement spacieux.
Why is the verb avons used here?
How do you pronounce the spaces between Nous, avons, and un?
You connect them! Normally, the S at the end of Nous and avons is silent. But because the next words start with vowels, you pronounce the S as a "Z" sound that jumps to the beginning of the next word. This linking is called a "liaison". Spoken aloud, the beginning of this sentence sounds like "Noo zah-vohn zun".
Why is the word order appartement spacieux instead of spacieux appartement?
In French, most adjectives (descriptive words) are placed after the noun they describe. This is the opposite of English. So instead of "spacious apartment", you literally say "apartment spacious".
Spacieux ends in an X. Does that mean it is plural?