Breakdown of L'intégration demande beaucoup de temps et d'efforts.
et
and
beaucoup de
a lot of / many
le temps
the time
l'effort
the effort (m)
Questions & Answers about L'intégration demande beaucoup de temps et d'efforts.
Why does the sentence use demande to mean "requires"?
Why is there an L' before intégration when the English translation is just "Integration"?
In French, abstract nouns and general concepts (like integration, love, or patience) must always be introduced by a definite article (le, la, l', or les). English drops the article for general concepts, but French keeps it.
efforts is plural, so why does the sentence use d'efforts instead of des efforts?
This is because of the expression of quantity beaucoup de (a lot of). After expressions of quantity, you always use de or d', never des—even if the noun that follows is plural. When you list multiple things after beaucoup, the de is usually repeated before each noun. So it is essentially beaucoup de temps et [beaucoup] d'efforts.
Does temps always end in an "s" even when it's singular?