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La star est éblouie par tous les flashs.

La star est éblouie par tous les flashs.
The star is dazzled by all the flashes.
From Lesson 225:Intensity and consequence (tellement que, tant que)·French

Questions & Answers about La star est éblouie par tous les flashs.

How would we add tellement to this sentence to fit the current lesson?
You would place tellement right after the conjugated verb est, and use que to introduce the consequence. For example: La star est tellement éblouie par tous les flashs qu'elle ne voit rien (The star is so dazzled by all the flashes that she can't see anything).
Why does éblouie have an extra -e at the end? What if the celebrity is a man?
The noun star is always feminine in French (une star), regardless of the person's actual gender. Because this sentence is in the passive voice, the past participle éblouie acts like an adjective and must agree with the feminine subject, taking an extra -e.
Why is the plural spelled flashs instead of flashes like in English?
When French borrows English nouns, it usually forms the plural by simply adding an -s, even if the original English spelling does something else. So un flash becomes des flashs.
Why do we use tous here instead of tout?
The word for all has to agree with the noun it describes. Because flashs is masculine plural, you must use the masculine plural form tous. You would use tout for a masculine singular noun, like tout le monde.

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