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Le client achète dix tomates et onze oignons frais.

Le client achète dix tomates et onze oignons frais.
The customer buys ten tomatoes and eleven fresh onions.
From Lesson 28:Numbers 1 to 20·French

Questions & Answers about Le client achète dix tomates et onze oignons frais.

How do you pronounce the number dix in this sentence?
Because dix is right before a word starting with a consonant (tomates), the final letter is silent. You just pronounce it like dee. If you were counting or saying the number by itself, you would pronounce it like deess.
Do I link the sounds between et and onze when speaking?
No, for two reasons! First, you never make a linking sound (called a liaison) after the word et (and). Second, the number onze is special: even though it starts with a vowel sound, it acts like it starts with a consonant, so you never link previous words to it.
Why does achète have an accent mark when the base verb acheter doesn't?
In the base verb acheter (to buy), the middle e sounds like a soft uh. When you change the verb to match the customer (le client achète), adding the accent mark changes the sound to an open eh. This makes it easier to pronounce.
How do you pronounce oignons?
The spelling is tricky because oignons is a famous exception in French! The i is completely silent, so the beginning of the word is pronounced like the o in the English word go.
Why does the word for fresh (frais) come after the onions?
In French, most describing words (adjectives) go directly after the noun they describe. So instead of saying fresh onions like in English, you say onions fresh (oignons frais).

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