Breakdown of Le ministre démissionnerait puisque le journaliste révèle un scoop.
un
a / an (masculine)
le journaliste
the journalist
démissionner
to resign
le ministre
the minister
Questions & Answers about Le ministre démissionnerait puisque le journaliste révèle un scoop.
Why is the conditional verb démissionnerait translated as 'is reportedly resigning' rather than 'would resign'?
What is the difference between puisque and parce que here?
While parce que simply answers 'why' with new information, puisque means 'since' or 'seeing as'. It implies that the reason is already known, obvious, or logical to the listener. Here, the journalist revealing a scoop is the established context that logically leads to the resignation.
Why does révèle have a grave accent (è) when the infinitive révéler has an acute accent (é)?
Révéler is a stem-changing verb. In the present tense, for all singular subjects and the third-person plural, the accent changes from é to è. This happens because the French language prefers an open 'è' sound when the next syllable is silent (the 'e' at the end of révèle is silent).