Word
Il faut que le salon commun soit ordonné.
Meaning
It is necessary that the shared living room be tidy.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Il faut que le salon commun soit ordonné.
être
to be
le salon
the living room
falloir
to be necessary / must (impersonal)
que
that (introducing a clause)
Questions & Answers about Il faut que le salon commun soit ordonné.
Why is soit used here instead of est?
The phrase Il faut que (It is necessary that) is a very common trigger for the subjunctive mood. Because of this, we must use soit, which is the irregular subjunctive form of être (to be) matching the third-person subject le salon commun.
In English we would normally say "The shared living room needs to be tidy." Can I translate that as Le salon commun faut être ordonné?
No, because the verb falloir (to be necessary / to need) is impersonal and can only ever be used with the dummy subject il. To say a specific thing "needs" to be a certain way, you must use the structure Il faut que followed by the specific subject (le salon commun) and a conjugated subjunctive verb (soit).
Does ordonné need to agree with the subject here?
Yes. ordonné is acting as an adjective here, meaning "tidy" or "orderly," so it must agree with the noun it describes. Because le salon is a masculine singular noun, ordonné stays in its base masculine singular form. If the space were feminine, like a shared kitchen (une cuisine commune), it would become ordonnée.
Does commun mean the living room is "common" or "ordinary"?