Breakdown of Nous allons au cirque pour voir les nouveaux acrobates.
nous
we / us (object pronoun)
pour
for
à
at / to / in (general locations) / about (what one thinks about / reacts to)
voir
to see
nouveau
new
aller
to go
le cirque
the circus
l'acrobate
the acrobat (m)
Questions & Answers about Nous allons au cirque pour voir les nouveaux acrobates.
Why is it au cirque and not à le cirque?
Why use pour voir instead of just voir to mean "to see"?
When "to" means "in order to" (expressing a goal or purpose), French requires the preposition pour before the infinitive verb. So, pour voir literally means "in order to see".
Why does nouveaux come before acrobates? Don't French adjectives usually go after the noun?
Most do, but a small group of common adjectives related to Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness, and Size (often remembered by the acronym BANGS) go before the noun. Nouveaux (new) fits into the Age category.
Why does nouveaux end in -x instead of -s for the plural?
The masculine singular form is nouveau. In French, most masculine adjectives that end in -eau form their plural by adding an -x rather than an -s.
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