Word
Si, notre allié est très pacifique.
Meaning
Yes, our ally is very peaceful.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Si, notre allié est très pacifique.
être
to be
très
very
notre
our (singular and plural forms: notre, nos)
si
yes (answering a negative question)
Questions & Answers about Si, notre allié est très pacifique.
Why use Si here instead of Oui to mean "yes"?
In French, si is the specific word used to say "yes" when you are contradicting a negative question or a negative statement. If someone said, "Your ally is not peaceful," or asked, "Isn't your ally peaceful?", you must use si to correct them and say, "Yes, he is!" If the original question had been positive, you would just use oui.
Is allié related to a verb, since it looks like a past participle?
If the ally were female (notre alliée), would the word pacifique change?
No, it wouldn't change. Most French adjectives add an -e to become feminine, but because pacifique already ends in an unaccented -e in its masculine form, it stays exactly the same when describing a feminine noun.