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La vie est belle dans ce pays.

La vie est belle dans ce pays.
Life is beautiful in this country.
From Lesson 50:The verb to want (vouloir)·French

Questions & Answers about La vie est belle dans ce pays.

Why does the sentence say La vie instead of just vie?
In English, we usually just say Life when talking about it in general. But in French, general concepts and abstract ideas always need a definite article like le or la. Since vie is feminine, we use la vie.
Why use belle here instead of beau?
French adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because vie (life) is a feminine noun, the adjective must be in its feminine form, belle. If we were describing a masculine word, we would use beau.
What does ce mean before pays?
ce is a pointing word that means this or that for masculine singular nouns. Here, it points specifically to the country being talked about to mean this country (ce pays).
Does the s at the end of pays mean it is plural?
No, pays (country) is a French word that naturally ends in an s even when it is singular. The word for one country is un pays, and for multiple countries it is des pays. We know it is singular here because it uses the singular word ce (this) right before it.

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