Questions & Answers about La rue où les chars défilent est très animée.
Why do we use où here instead of qui or que?
In French, the relative pronoun où means "where" (and sometimes "when"). You use it to link a place or a time to the rest of the sentence. Since la rue (the street) is a place, we use où to say "the street where...". You would use qui or que for "who", "which", or "that".
Wait, doesn't chars mean "tanks" or "chariots"? Why is it translated as "floats"?
Why is the verb est singular when the verb right before it is plural (défilent)?
This is because the sentence contains a main clause interrupted by a relative clause. The core sentence is simply La rue est très animée (The street is very lively). The middle part, où les chars défilent (where the floats parade), is just extra information. The verb est matches the main singular subject, la rue.
Why does animée have an extra -e at the end?