Word
Nous visitons un musée à Rome.
Meaning
We are visiting a museum in Rome.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Nous visitons un musée à Rome.
nous
we / us (object pronoun)
à
at / to / in (general locations) / about (what one thinks about / reacts to)
visiter
to visit
le musée
the museum
Questions & Answers about Nous visitons un musée à Rome.
Why does the sentence use à Rome to mean "in Rome" instead of dans or en?
In French, you always use the preposition à (meaning "in" or "at") before the exact name of a city. You use en, au, or aux for countries, regions, and states, but cities always get à.
The word musée ends with an "e". Shouldn't it be feminine (une musée)?
The English translation says "we are visiting". Why isn't there a word for "are" in the French sentence?
French doesn't have a separate "am/is/are + -ing" action form like English does. The single present tense verb visitons translates to both "we visit" and "we are visiting". Adding a word for "are" (like sommes) here would be incorrect!