Questions & Answers about Ne marche pas sur le bord.
Why is there no 's' at the end of marche if it's the tu form?
This is a command, also known as the imperative form. For regular -er verbs like marcher, you drop the final 's' in the tu form. That is why it is marche instead of marches.
The lesson is about complex prepositions. How would I use bord to say 'on the edge OF' something?
If you want to specify what the edge belongs to, you use the complex preposition au bord de (meaning 'at the edge of' or 'on the banks of'). Because this sentence doesn't specify what the edge belongs to, it simply uses the basic preposition sur (on) with le bord (the edge).
Can bord mean anything else besides 'edge'?
How does the negative ne ... pas work in commands like this?
It works exactly the same as in a normal sentence! The ne and pas simply wrap around the conjugated verb. You just leave out the subject pronoun (tu), which gives you Ne marche pas instead of Tu ne marches pas.
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