Learn French: Nous préparons une bonne soupe chaude avec des légumes. - We are preparing a good hot soup with vegetables.

Nous préparons une bonne soupe chaude avec des légumes.

We are preparing a good hot soup with vegetables.

Breakdown of Nous préparons une bonne soupe chaude avec des légumes.

we / us (object pronoun)

des

some (plural indefinite)

Questions & Answers about Nous préparons une bonne soupe chaude avec des légumes.

Why is bonne before soupe but chaude is after it?

In French, most adjectives go after the noun, like chaude (hot). However, a small group of common adjectives describing Beauty, Age, Goodness, or Size (often remembered as the BAGS rule) go before the noun. Since bonne (good) describes Goodness, it comes before soupe.

Why are they spelled bonne and chaude instead of bon and chaud?

Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because the word for soup (une soupe) is feminine, we add an -e to chaud to make it chaude, and bon changes to its feminine form, bonne.

Does Nous préparons mean "We prepare" or "We are preparing"?

It means both! French doesn't have a separate "-ing" tense for actions happening right now. Nous préparons translates to "We prepare", "We are preparing", or even "We do prepare" depending on what makes the most sense in English.

Why is it des légumes when the English translation just says "with vegetables"?

In English, we can often skip words like "some" before plural nouns, saying just "with vegetables". In French, you almost always need an article before a noun. Here, des acts as the plural of "a" or "some", so you are literally saying "with some vegetables".