Learn French: Le bébé est très fatigué, il dort beaucoup. - The baby is very tired, he sleeps a lot.

Le bébé est très fatigué, il dort beaucoup.

The baby is very tired, he sleeps a lot.

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Questions & Answers about Le bébé est très fatigué, il dort beaucoup.

Why do we use très with fatigué but beaucoup with dort?

This is exactly how these two words work! We use très (very) before an adjective like fatigué to describe how tired the baby is. We use beaucoup (a lot) after a verb like dort to describe the action of sleeping. You can never say très dort (very sleeps) or beaucoup fatigué (a lot tired).

If the baby is a girl, would we change it to la bébé and use elle?

No, le bébé is always a masculine noun in French, regardless of the baby's actual gender. That is why we use le, followed by the masculine pronoun il, and why the adjective fatigué does not get an extra feminine e at the end.

What verb does dort come from?

It comes from the verb dormir (to sleep). It is an irregular verb, which is why the m from dormir disappears in this singular form il dort (he sleeps). The m comes back in plural forms like nous dormons (we sleep).

Are the last letters in très and dort pronounced?