Word
Tu dois lire ce livre australien.
Meaning
You must read this Australian book.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Tu dois lire ce livre australien.
tu
you (informal singular)
le livre
the book
ce
this (before a noun)
devoir
to have to / must
Questions & Answers about Tu dois lire ce livre australien.
How would the adjective australien change if we were talking about a feminine noun?
To make adjectives ending in -en feminine, you double the final n and add an e. So, if you were talking about an Australian song (une chanson), the adjective would become australienne.
Why is lire in its dictionary form instead of being conjugated?
When you have two verbs back-to-back, the first one is conjugated (dois) and the second one stays in its infinitive or dictionary form (lire). This is a very common pattern in French.
Since livre ends in an e, shouldn't we use the feminine cette instead of ce?