Breakdown of Nous voyons un fantôme dans le château !
nous
we / us (object pronoun)
dans
in, inside
voir
to see
le château
the castle
le fantôme
the ghost
Questions & Answers about Nous voyons un fantôme dans le château !
Why is there a 'y' in voyons if the infinitive is voir?
Voir (to see) is an irregular verb. In the present tense, the i changes to a y for the nous and vous forms: nous voyons and vous voyez. The other present tense forms keep the i, like je vois or ils voient.
Does Nous voyons mean 'We see' or 'We are seeing'?
Why do both fantôme and château have a circumflex (ˆ) accent?
In French, the circumflex accent often shows where an 's' used to be in Old French. You can sometimes see that missing 's' in related English words! Château is related to 'castle', and fantôme is related to 'phantom' (from the older root 'phantasm').
Why do we use dans le for 'in the' instead of en?
We use dans when we want to say someone or something is physically inside a specific, enclosed place, like a castle. It is almost always followed by an article like le, la, or un. En is generally used for concepts, materials, seasons, or feminine countries, usually without an article (like en France).
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