Learn French: Quant à la responsabilité du projet, elle est énorme. - As for the responsibility of the project, it is enormous.

Quant à la responsabilité du projet, elle est énorme.

As for the responsibility of the project, it is enormous.

Breakdown of Quant à la responsabilité du projet, elle est énorme.

of / from / any (in negative sentences) / about (concerning)

le projet

the project

Questions & Answers about Quant à la responsabilité du projet, elle est énorme.

Does quant à change its form depending on the noun that follows it?

Yes, it behaves just like the regular preposition à. Because responsabilité is feminine, it stays quant à la. If the noun were masculine, it would contract to quant au (e.g., quant au projet), and for plural nouns it becomes quant aux.

Why do we need the pronoun elle before est énorme?

In French, phrases starting with quant à introduce a topic, but they cannot act as the grammatical subject of the main verb. You must use a subject pronoun (like elle, referring back to the feminine la responsabilité) for the verb est. Without elle, the sentence would be grammatically incomplete.

Could I use en ce qui concerne instead of quant à here?

Absolutely. You could say En ce qui concerne la responsabilité du projet, elle est énorme. Both mean exactly the same thing, but quant à is shorter. Just remember that en ce qui concerne never changes its form, whereas quant à requires contractions like au or aux depending on the noun.

Is the 't' in quant à pronounced?