Breakdown of La cuisine est sale, il va la nettoyer.
être
to be
il
he
la cuisine
the kitchen
aller
to go
sale
dirty
nettoyer
to clean
la
her, it (feminine direct object pronoun)
Questions & Answers about La cuisine est sale, il va la nettoyer.
Why do we use la for "it" instead of le?
Why is la placed right before nettoyer and not before va?
In sentences with a conjugated verb and an infinitive (an unconjugated verb like nettoyer), the object pronoun goes right before the infinitive it belongs to. Since he is cleaning "it", la goes directly in front of nettoyer.
Does the word sale mean the kitchen is on discount?
No, sale is a false friend (a word that looks like English but has a totally different meaning). In French, sale simply means "dirty". If you want to talk about shopping discounts, you would use the word les soldes.
How do we know il va nettoyer means "he is going to clean"?
This uses a very common structure called the near future. Just like in English, you conjugate the verb aller (to go) and add an infinitive verb. So il va (he is going) + nettoyer (to clean) gives us "he is going to clean".
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