Question 1

Does salon mean a hair salon or beauty parlor here?

Accepted Answer

No, in French, le salon most commonly means the living room or sitting room in a house. To talk about a hair salon, you would specify by saying un salon de coiffure.

Question 2

Since the lesson is about chez, could we use chez nous here instead of le salon?

Accepted Answer

You could! Saying Nous avons décoré chez nous ensemble would mean 'We decorated our home together.' Because chez nous refers to your place as a whole, using le salon instead is just a way to be more specific about exactly which room was decorated.

Question 3

Nous is plural, so why doesn't the past participle décoré have an 's' at the end?

Accepted Answer

Because the helping verb is avoir (we have). In the past tense, verbs that use avoir do not add an 's' to match the subject. You generally only make the past participle agree with the subject when the helping verb is être.

Question 4

Why does the word ensemble go at the very end of the sentence?

Accepted Answer

Ensemble means 'together'. While many short adverbs (like bien or déjà) are placed between the helping verb and the past participle, ensemble is placed after the past participle. Here, it naturally falls at the end of the sentence after the object (le salon).

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