Learn French: Le supermarché fait un sondage intéressant. - The supermarket is doing an interesting survey.

Le supermarché fait un sondage intéressant.

The supermarket is doing an interesting survey.

Breakdown of Le supermarché fait un sondage intéressant.

Questions & Answers about Le supermarché fait un sondage intéressant.

Why does intéressant come after sondage?

In French, most adjectives are placed after the noun they describe. While English says 'an interesting survey', French says un sondage intéressant (literally 'a survey interesting').

How would I ask 'Why is the supermarket doing an interesting survey?' using the structure from this lesson?

To make a Wh-question, you start with your question word (pourquoi for 'why'), add est-ce que, and then keep the rest of the sentence in its normal order. So you would ask: Pourquoi est-ce que le supermarché fait un sondage intéressant ?

Why is the verb just fait? Shouldn't there be a word for 'is' doing?

French doesn't have a separate present continuous tense (verbs ending in '-ing' with 'is' or 'are'). The simple present tense covers both! So, le supermarché fait translates to both 'the supermarket does' and 'the supermarket is doing'.

How can I tell that sondage (survey) is a masculine word?

You can tell by looking at the words around it! It uses the masculine word for 'a' (un instead of une), and the adjective intéressant is in its masculine form (it would be intéressante with an -e at the end if the noun were feminine).