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Ton sourire est vraiment très charmant.

Ton sourire est vraiment très charmant.
Your smile is really very charming.
From Lesson 116:Irregular imperatives (sois, aie)·French

Questions & Answers about Ton sourire est vraiment très charmant.

Wait, isn't sourire a verb?
It is! Sourire means "to smile", but it is also used directly as a masculine noun meaning "a smile" (un sourire). Because it is a masculine noun, we use the masculine possessive adjective ton for "your".
Since the sentence uses ton, why is the verb est instead of es?
Because the subject of the sentence is ton sourire (your smile), which is a third-person noun, just like il (it). Even though the smile belongs to "you", the verb must agree with the noun "smile", so we use est (is), not es (are).
Is it natural to use both vraiment and très right next to each other?
Yes, it is perfectly normal! Just like in English, you can string these adverbs together in French for extra emphasis. Here, vraiment (really) simply modifies the phrase très charmant (very charming).
Why does vraiment end in "-ment" while charmant ends in "-ant"?
Vraiment is an adverb, and the -ment ending in French works a lot like the "-ly" ending in English. Charmant is an adjective describing the smile, and its -ant ending is equivalent to the English "-ing" in "charming".

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