Learn French: Tout le monde aurait droit au respect et à la liberté. - Everyone would have the right to respect and freedom.

Tout le monde aurait droit au respect et à la liberté.

Everyone would have the right to respect and freedom.

Breakdown of Tout le monde aurait droit au respect et à la liberté.

and

avoir

to have

at / to / in (general locations) / about (what one thinks about / reacts to)

to the / at the (masculine singular)

Questions & Answers about Tout le monde aurait droit au respect et à la liberté.

How is aurait formed in this sentence?

aurait is the present conditional of avoir (to have). Just like the lesson explains, you take the future stem of the verb and add the imparfait (past) ending. The verb avoir has an irregular future stem, aur-. To that, we add -ait, the imparfait ending for il/elle/on.

"Everyone" refers to many people, so why does aurait use the singular ending -ait instead of the plural -aient?

In French, tout le monde literally translates to "all the world." Even though it means "everyone," it is grammatically a singular subject. Therefore, it always takes the third-person singular verb form, just like il or elle.

Why do we see au respect but à la liberté?

The expression used here is avoir droit à (to have the right to). When the preposition à is followed by the masculine noun le respect, they must contract into au. However, when à is followed by the feminine noun la liberté, they do not contract, leaving us with à la.

Could I just say au respect et la liberté without repeating the à?