Breakdown of La monotonie de ce travail rend mon collègue impatient.
ce
this (before a noun)
de
of / from / any (in negative sentences) / about (concerning)
le collègue
the colleague
mon
my (mon, ma, mes)
le travail
the job
la
her, it (feminine direct object pronoun)
rendre
to make (+ adjective)
la monotonie
the monotony
impatient
impatient
Questions & Answers about La monotonie de ce travail rend mon collègue impatient.
Why do we use rend instead of fait to translate "makes" in this sentence?
When "to make" is followed by an adjective that describes a change in state, emotion, or mood, French uses rendre. You use faire when "to make" is followed by an infinitive verb, like making someone do an action. Because impatient is an adjective describing the colleague's mood, rend is the correct choice here.
How do we know whether impatient should agree with la monotonie or mon collègue?
If I wanted to say "The monotony of this work makes him impatient," where would the pronoun go?
The noun collègue ends in an "e". Is it strictly a feminine or masculine word?
Collègue is a word that has the exact same spelling for both masculine and feminine. The grammatical gender depends entirely on the person you are talking about. Here, the possessive mon and the masculine adjective impatient tell us this is a male colleague. A female colleague would be ma collègue impatiente.
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