Word
D'ailleurs, les voitures que nous avons vues ont l'air bien entretenues.
Meaning
Moreover, the cars that we saw look well maintained.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of D'ailleurs, les voitures que nous avons vues ont l'air bien entretenues.
la voiture
the car
nous
we / us (object pronoun)
avoir
to have
bien
well
Questions & Answers about D'ailleurs, les voitures que nous avons vues ont l'air bien entretenues.
Why is entretenues feminine plural here instead of agreeing with the masculine singular l'air?
With the expression avoir l'air (to seem or to look), when the subject is an inanimate object like les voitures, the adjective must agree with the subject. Since voitures is feminine plural, entretenues takes the -es ending. If the subject were a person, the adjective could technically agree with either the person or the word air, though agreeing with the subject is still much more common.
Why does vues have an -es at the end even though it is conjugated with avoir?
Could I use semblent instead of ont l'air in this sentence?
Yes, semblent (from sembler, meaning to seem) works perfectly here and has almost exactly the same meaning. You would say ...semblent bien entretenues. Avoir l'air is just a bit more conversational and focuses slightly more on the physical appearance (they look well maintained).