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Le diable apparaît dans cette histoire.

Le diable apparaît dans cette histoire.
The devil appears in this story.
From Lesson 392:Exclamations (comme / que / ce que)·French

Breakdown of Le diable apparaît dans cette histoire.

dans
in, inside
l'histoire
the story (f)
apparaître
to appear
le diable
the devil

Questions & Answers about Le diable apparaît dans cette histoire.

How would I use the grammar from this lesson to exclaim "How the devil appears in this story!"?
To make this an exclamative sentence, you simply place Comme, Que, or Ce que at the very beginning of the sentence without changing the word order. For example: Comme le diable apparaît dans cette histoire !
Why does apparaît have a circumflex over the i, and do I have to use it?
In traditional French spelling, verbs ending in -aître take a circumflex on the i whenever it is immediately followed by a t. However, since the 1990 spelling reform, it is also completely correct to write apparait without the accent.
Why do we use dans instead of en for "in" here?
You must use dans because it is followed by a determiner, which in this case is the demonstrative adjective cette. Dans points to a specific item or container, whereas en is typically followed directly by a noun without an article (like en ville or en colère).
Does histoire mean both "story" and "history"?
Yes, histoire is the word for both. Context tells us it means "story" here. If you were talking about the academic subject or the course of human events, you would usually capitalize it as l'Histoire.

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