Il a regardé la roulette et le croupier.

Questions & Answers about Il a regardé la roulette et le croupier.

How would this sentence change if he watched 'everything' instead of the roulette and the dealer?
To say 'He watched everything,' you use the pronoun tout. In compound tenses like the passé composé, tout is placed between the auxiliary verb (a) and the past participle (regardé), making it: Il a tout regardé.
Why isn't there a preposition after regardé to mean 'looked at'?
In French, the verb regarder is a direct transitive verb, meaning it connects to its object without a preposition. Even though we say 'to look at' in English, in French it is simply regarder followed directly by the object (la roulette).
Why did we use regardé here instead of vu (seen)?
Regarder is used for the active, intentional action of watching or looking at something. Voir (to see) is used for the more passive act of noticing something with your eyes. Since he is actively paying attention to the casino game, regardé is the correct choice.
Do we have to repeat the word for 'the' before both nouns?
Yes. In English, you can often skip the second article and just say 'the roulette and dealer'. In French, you must always repeat the article (la and le) before every single noun in a series.

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