Breakdown of En fouillant dans ce placard, tu vas trouver de bons sèche-cheveux.
tu
you (informal singular)
dans
in, inside
ce
this (before a noun)
de
of / from / any (in negative sentences) / about (concerning)
trouver
to find
bon
good
aller
to go
le placard
the cupboard
en
while / by (with gerund)
fouiller
to search
le sèche-cheveux
the hairdryer
Questions & Answers about En fouillant dans ce placard, tu vas trouver de bons sèche-cheveux.
Why doesn't sèche-cheveux change its spelling in the plural?
Sèche-cheveux is a compound noun made of a verb (sèche, from sécher, to dry) and a noun (cheveux, hair). In French, the verb part of a compound noun never takes a plural -s. The noun part can take an -s, but because a hairdryer always dries multiple hairs, cheveux is already plural even in the singular form (un sèche-cheveux). Therefore, the plural looks exactly the same as the singular.
Why is it de bons sèche-cheveux and not des bons sèche-cheveux?
This is a classic rule to remember: when a plural adjective (bons) comes immediately before a plural noun (sèche-cheveux), the indefinite plural article des changes to de. In casual spoken French, you might hear people say des bons, but de bons is the grammatically correct form you should expect in written French.
What grammatical structure is En fouillant, and how does it work here?
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