Breakdown of L'étudiante étrangère ne parle jamais français.
français
French
l'étudiant
the student (m)
ne
not (used before the verb)
parler
to speak
jamais
never / ever
le
him, it (masculine direct object pronoun)
étranger
foreign
Questions & Answers about L'étudiante étrangère ne parle jamais français.
Why is it étrangère with a grave accent (è)?
Because l'étudiante (the student) is feminine! The masculine word for foreign is étranger. As you're learning in this lesson, to make adjectives ending in -er feminine, you change the ending to -ère.
Why does étrangère come after l'étudiante?
In French, most adjectives go right after the noun they describe. So instead of 'the foreign student', you say 'the student foreign' (l'étudiante étrangère).
How does ne ... jamais work in this sentence?
The phrase ne ... jamais means never. Just like the basic ne ... pas (not), these two words wrap around the conjugated verb. Here, they wrap around parle to make ne parle jamais (never speaks).
Why isn't français capitalized, and where is the word le?
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