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Sa colère est montée très vite.

Sa colère est montée très vite.
His anger rose very quickly.
From Lesson 188:Subjunctive for emotions (être content que, avoir peur que)·French

Questions & Answers about Sa colère est montée très vite.

The translation says "His anger", so why use sa instead of son?
In French, possessive adjectives agree with the noun being owned, not the person who owns it. Since colère (anger) is a feminine noun, you must use sa, even if the anger belongs to a man. If the sentence meant "her anger", the French would remain exactly the same: sa colère.
Why does this sentence use est montée instead of a monté?
The verb monter (to go up / to rise) is a verb of movement, which means it uses être as its helping verb in the passé composé. Because it uses être, the past participle monté must agree with the feminine subject colère, so it gets an extra e at the end to become montée.
Can I say très rapidement instead of très vite?
Yes, you can! Vite and rapidement are both adverbs meaning "quickly" or "fast", and they are completely interchangeable here. Just don't use rapide, because that is an adjective and must describe a noun, whereas here we need an adverb to describe how the verb est montée happened.
This lesson is about the subjunctive. Does the word colère trigger the subjunctive?
As a noun on its own in a simple sentence, no. However, if you use it in an expression of emotion with que, like être en colère que (to be angry that...), it definitely triggers the subjunctive for the following verb. For example: Je suis en colère qu'il soit parti (I am angry that he left). In our example sentence, there is no que clause, so no subjunctive is needed.

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