Questions & Answers about Les enfants font attention dans le musée.
Why does this sentence use font instead of a word for "are"?
In English, you say someone "is careful," but in French, the expression is faire attention, which literally translates to "to make attention." Since les enfants (the children) is plural, we use font, which is the "they" form of the irregular verb faire (to do/make). How would I change this sentence to say "The children CAN be careful"?
You would use the verb pouvoir (can / to be able to). You conjugate it for "they" (peuvent) and put it right before the action. The main action verb then changes back to its infinitive (dictionary form), which is faire. The new sentence is: Les enfants peuvent faire attention dans le musée. Is the 's' in Les pronounced in this sentence?
Yes! Usually, the 's' at the end of Les is silent. However, because the next word (enfants) starts with a vowel, you pronounce the 's' like a "z" and link it to the beginning of the word. This sound linking is called a liaison, making it sound like "lay-zahn-fahn". Why use dans le instead of au for "in the museum"?
While au (a combination of à + le) is often used to mean "at the" or "to the" museum, using dans specifically highlights being physically enclosed inside a three-dimensional space. Dans le musée emphasizes that the children are indoors, inside the building itself. Learn Les enfants font attention dans le musée and more in French
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