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Elle reçoit une médaille au concours.

Elle reçoit une médaille au concours.
She receives a medal at the competition.
From Lesson 91:High-frequency irregular verbs (vivre, recevoir)·French

Questions & Answers about Elle reçoit une médaille au concours.

Why is there a cedilla (ç) in reçoit?
The verb is recevoir. When we conjugate it for elle (she) in the present tense, it becomes reçoit. In French, the letter 'c' makes a hard 'k' sound before the vowels 'a', 'o', or 'u'. We add the cedilla to keep the soft 's' sound from the original verb recevoir.
Why do we say au concours instead of à le concours?
In French, the preposition à (at/to) and the masculine word for 'the', le, always combine to form au. Since concours is masculine (le concours), we must use au.
Does the 's' at the end of concours mean she went to multiple competitions?
No, it is just one competition! Concours is a masculine noun that naturally ends in an 's' even in its singular form. You can tell it is singular here because the sentence uses au instead of the plural form aux.

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