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Ce bâtiment a une forme ronde.

Ce bâtiment a une forme ronde.
This building has a round shape.
From Lesson 92:Complex prepositions of location (près de, à côté de)·French

Questions & Answers about Ce bâtiment a une forme ronde.

Why is it Ce bâtiment instead of Cet or Cette?
Bâtiment is a masculine noun. You use ce for masculine singular nouns that start with a consonant. You would only use cet if the masculine noun started with a vowel sound (like cet arbre), and cette is for feminine nouns.
Why does ronde come after forme?
In French, most adjectives are placed after the noun they describe. Only a specific group of common, short adjectives (describing Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness, and Size—often remembered as the BAGS rule) go before the noun. Since ronde describes a shape, it follows the regular rule and goes after forme.
Why is there an 'e' at the end of ronde?
Adjectives in French must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because forme (shape) is a feminine noun (as shown by une), the masculine adjective rond (round) needs an -e added to the end to become the feminine ronde.
What is the purpose of the circumflex (the little hat) on the 'a' in bâtiment?
The circumflex accent (^) slightly changes the vowel sound, but it is mostly a historical spelling clue. It often shows where an 's' used to be in Old French. If you imagine an 's' after the 'a', you get bastiment, which shares a root with English building-related words like bastion!

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