Breakdown of C'est notre projet.
être
to be
ce
it / this (with être)
notre
our (singular and plural forms: notre, nos)
le projet
the project
Questions & Answers about C'est notre projet.
Why do we use notre and not nos if "our" means more than one person?
In French, possessive adjectives match the thing being owned, not the owners. Because there is only one projet (project), you use the singular form notre. If you were talking about multiple projects, you would use nos (nos projets).
Would notre change if the noun it describes was feminine?
No, it stays exactly the same! Unlike words like mon/ma or ton/ta which change based on gender, the possessive adjectives notre (our) and votre (your) are gender-neutral. They only change to nos and vos if the noun is plural.
Why is it written as C'est instead of Ce est?
The word ce (this/it) drops its "e" and uses an apostrophe when the next word starts with a vowel, like est (is). This is called elision, and it makes the phrase smoother to say.
Do I pronounce the "t" at the end of projet?
No, the final "t" in projet is silent, which is very common for consonants at the end of French words. You pronounce the end of the word like "zhay".