Breakdown of À part cette cabane intacte, tout pourrit ici.
ici
here
ce
this (before a noun)
tout
all, everything
à part
apart from
Questions & Answers about À part cette cabane intacte, tout pourrit ici.
Could I use sauf instead of à part in this sentence?
Yes! In this context, sauf (except) and à part (apart from) mean the same thing and are essentially interchangeable. You could easily say Sauf cette cabane intacte... and the meaning remains exactly the same.
Why does tout take the singular verb pourrit if it means everything?
Just like the English word everything, the French pronoun tout is grammatically singular. When it acts as the subject of a sentence, you always conjugate the verb in the third-person singular, which is the il/elle/on form.
What kind of verb is pourrit?
Why does intacte have an extra -e at the end?
Because it has to agree with the noun it describes, cabane (cabin), which is feminine. You can also tell cabane is feminine because it uses the feminine demonstrative adjective cette (this) instead of the masculine ce.