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Nous aimons le festival traditionnel où les gens dansent.

Nous aimons le festival traditionnel où les gens dansent.
We like the traditional festival where people dance.
From Lesson 124:Relative pronouns of place and time (où)·French

Questions & Answers about Nous aimons le festival traditionnel où les gens dansent.

Why does où have an accent mark in this sentence?
The accent changes the meaning! Without it, ou means "or". With the grave accent, où means "where". In this lesson, où acts as a bridge (a relative pronoun) linking the location (le festival traditionnel) to the action happening there (les gens dansent).
Why does traditionnel come after festival instead of before it?
In French, most adjectives go after the noun. Only a specific short list of common adjectives (describing Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness, and Size, often remembered as the BAGS rule) go before the noun. Since traditionnel doesn't fit into those categories, it directly follows le festival.
Why is the verb in the "they" form for les gens dansent?
In French, les gens (people) is always a plural noun. Because it refers to multiple people, any verb attached to it must be conjugated in the third-person plural ("they") form, which is why we use dansent.
How do I pronounce the end of the verb dansent?
The -ent ending on a conjugated French verb is completely silent! Even though it is spelled differently to show it belongs to a plural subject, you pronounce dansent exactly the same way you would pronounce the singular form danse.

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