Word
Il tourne le volant et accélère le moins prudemment dans ce virage.
Meaning
He turns the steering wheel and accelerates the least carefully in this turn.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Il tourne le volant et accélère le moins prudemment dans ce virage.
il
he
et
and
dans
in, inside
ce
this (before a noun)
Questions & Answers about Il tourne le volant et accélère le moins prudemment dans ce virage.
Why do we use le in le moins prudemment? Could it ever change to la or les?
No, it never changes. You are using the superlative form of an adverb here to say how he accelerates ("the least carefully"). Because adverbs describe actions and don't have gender or number, their superlative always uses the invariable le (le plus or le moins), no matter who is doing the action.
How is the adverb prudemment formed?
How do you pronounce the -emment ending in prudemment?
Even though it is spelled with an 'e', it is pronounced exactly like an "a"! French adverbs ending in -emment sound identical to those ending in -amment (like couramment). The ending sounds like "ah-mahn".