Marie duplique l’album partagé.

Because French usually shortens le and la before a vowel sound. This is called elision.

• le album becomes l’album
• la amie becomes l’amie

Even though album is masculine, you still write l’ before it because it starts with a vowel.

Album is masculine in French, so its full article is le.

That is why:

• the album = l’album
• not la or une unless the meaning changes to an album

You can tell it is masculine here because the underlying form is le album, which becomes l’album.

Because in French, many adjectives come after the noun they describe.

So:

• l’album partagé = the shared album

This is very normal in French. English often puts adjectives before the noun, but French frequently places them after it.

Because partagé agrees with album, not with Marie.

• album is masculine singular
• so the adjective must also be masculine singular
• therefore: partagé

If the noun were feminine, you would usually add -e:

• la photo partagée

So even though Marie is female, that does not affect partagé here.

Duplique is the third-person singular present tense form of the verb dupliquer.

Here it matches Marie, which is a third-person singular subject:

• je duplique = I duplicate
• tu dupliques = you duplicate
• il / elle duplique = he / she duplicates

So Marie duplique... means that Marie is performing the action in the present tense.

French and English mark verbs differently.

In English, with he/she/it, the present tense often takes -s:

• Marie duplicates

In French, the third-person singular ending for many -er verbs is often written -e:

• Marie duplique

So the French verb does show agreement with the subject, just in a different way from English.

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

• lal-bum par-ta-zhay

A few useful points:

• l’album links smoothly, almost like one unit
• duplique has a k sound in the middle: dyu-pleek
• the g in partagé sounds like the s in measure
• the final -é is pronounced, like ay

If you want to say the whole sentence smoothly, it sounds roughly like:

• ma-ree dyu-pleek lal-bum par-ta-zhay

In French, nouns usually need an article or another determiner.

So French normally says:

• l’album partagé
• un album partagé
• cet album partagé
• son album partagé

But not usually just album partagé by itself in a sentence like this.

This is one of the big differences from English, where articles can sometimes be omitted more easily.

Yes, depending on context, dupliquer can refer to making a duplicate or copying something. In digital or technical contexts, it often means to duplicate or to copy.

So in a sentence like this, the exact nuance may depend on where it appears:

• in software: duplicating a shared album
• in general use: making a copy of it

Even if the translation shown to the learner uses one English word, the French verb can sometimes overlap with related ideas like copy or clone, especially in tech contexts.

Here partagé means the album is shared in the sense of having been shared.

It is an adjective based on the past participle of partager.

So un album partagé is an album with the status of being shared, not an album that is actively doing the sharing itself.

This is similar to English expressions like:

• a closed door
• a shared folder
• a saved file