Breakdown of Celui qui a une mauvaise odeur est plus toxique que les autres.
être
to be
une
a / an (feminine)
qui
who
avoir
to have
Questions & Answers about Celui qui a une mauvaise odeur est plus toxique que les autres.
Why is it celui qui and not celui que?
Celui means "the one" (referring to a masculine singular noun), but choosing between qui and que depends on its role in the relative clause. You must use qui when it is the subject doing the action (the one that has a bad smell). You would use que if it were the object receiving an action, like celui que tu sens (the one that you smell).
If the thing with the bad smell was a feminine noun like a plant (une plante), how would this sentence change?
You would change the demonstrative pronoun celui to its feminine singular form, celle. The beginning of the sentence would become Celle qui a une mauvaise odeur... The rest of the sentence would stay exactly the same.
Why does the adjective mauvaise come before the noun odeur?