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Nous préparons le même dessert.

Nous préparons le même dessert.
We are preparing the same dessert.
From Lesson 49:Very vs. a lot (très, beaucoup)·French

Breakdown of Nous préparons le même dessert.

préparer
to prepare
le dessert
the dessert
même
same; even

Questions & Answers about Nous préparons le même dessert.

Does Nous préparons mean "We prepare" or "We are preparing"?
It means both! French does not have a separate "are doing" tense. The simple present tense Nous préparons translates to either "We prepare" or "We are preparing" depending on what makes sense in English.
Why is même placed before dessert? I thought adjectives come after the noun.
Most descriptive adjectives do come after the noun in French, but a short list of common ones come before. Même (meaning "same") is one of these exceptions, so it is placed between the article (le) and the noun (dessert).
If they were preparing "the same desserts" (plural), how would the phrase change?
You would need to make the article and the adjective plural to match the noun. "The same desserts" becomes les mêmes desserts. Remember that the "s" at the end of mêmes and desserts is usually silent!
How would I use what we learned in this lesson to say "We prepare the same dessert a lot"?
Because you are describing how much you do the verb (preparing a lot), you use beaucoup rather than très. In French, this goes right after the verb, so you would say Nous préparons beaucoup le même dessert.

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