Marie rempote la plante d’intérieur.

Rempote is the verb, and here it is in the present tense.

It comes from the infinitive rempoter, which means to repot.

In this sentence, rempote is the third-person singular present form:

• je rempote
• tu rempotes
• il / elle / on rempote

So Marie rempote... means Marie is repotting... or Marie repots..., depending on context.

Because Marie is a third-person singular subject, and rempoter is a regular -er verb.

For most regular -er verbs in the present tense, the endings are:

• -e
• -es
• -e
• -ons
• -ez
• -ent

So with Marie, you use the elle/il form: rempote.

French often uses the simple present where English might use either:

• Marie repots the houseplant or
• Marie is repotting the houseplant

So Marie rempote la plante d’intérieur can naturally correspond to either English version, depending on context.

French does have ways to stress an action in progress, but in an ordinary sentence the present tense usually does the job by itself.

La means the, while une means a/an.

So:

• la plante = the plant
• une plante = a plant

Using la suggests the plant is a specific one already known from the situation or context. If you said une plante d’intérieur, it would mean a houseplant / an indoor plant, without pointing to a particular one.

Because Marie is a proper noun—a person’s name. In standard French, people’s names normally do not take an article.

So you say:

• Marie rempote la plante not
• la Marie rempote la plante

In some regional or informal varieties, an article before a name can appear, but that is not the normal standard usage here.

D’intérieur literally means of interior / for indoors, but in natural English it usually means indoor.

So:

• une plante d’intérieur = an indoor plant
• la plante d’intérieur = the indoor plant / the houseplant

This is a very common French pattern:

• chaussures d’hiver = winter shoes
• table de cuisine = kitchen table
• plante d’intérieur = indoor plant

Because de becomes d’ before a vowel sound.

So:

• de + intérieur → d’intérieur

This shortening is called elision. French does it often to avoid awkward vowel clashes.

Other examples:

• de + eau → d’eau
• je + aime → j’aime
• le + intérieur would not happen here, but le + ami would become l’ami

Good question. Here, intérieur is not being used as a normal adjective directly modifying plante.

The phrase is plante d’intérieur, where d’intérieur is a prepositional expression meaning something like for indoors or kept indoors.

Because of that, intérieur does not change to match plante.

Compare:

• une plante d’intérieur = an indoor plant / a houseplant
• une pièce intérieure = an interior room

In pièce intérieure, intérieure is a regular adjective and agrees with the feminine noun pièce. In plante d’intérieur, it is part of the fixed expression d’intérieur.

Usually, no—not if you mean houseplant or indoor plant.

The natural expression is plante d’intérieur.

If you said plante intérieure, it would sound unusual and would not normally be how French expresses the idea of a houseplant. French strongly prefers the noun phrase plante d’intérieur.

Yes. The sentence follows the standard French word order:

Subject + Verb + Object

• Marie = subject
• rempote = verb
• la plante d’intérieur = direct object

This is the same basic order as in English: Marie repots the houseplant.

It is pronounced approximately ruhn-pot in English-style approximation, with the French r and a clear final t sound.

A rough IPA transcription is /ʁɑ̃.pɔt/.

A few helpful points:

• rem- sounds nasal, not like English rem
• the p is pronounced
• the final -e is silent
• the final t is pronounced here

So it is not pronounced like rempot-uh.

A rough pronunciation is something like plahnt dan-tay-ree-uhr, but with French sounds.

More carefully:

• plante ≈ /plɑ̃t/
• d’intérieur ≈ /d‿ɛ̃.te.ʁjœʁ/

A few things to notice:

• plante has a nasal vowel
• d’ links directly to intérieur
• intérieur has the French r, not an English r
• the stress is not as strong and fixed as in English

It is a normal and useful verb, especially when talking about gardening or houseplants, but it is more specific than a very common verb like faire or avoir.

If you have plants, you will definitely see or hear it. It specifically means to repot, not just to plant.

Compare:

• planter = to plant
• rempoter = to repot

So Marie rempote la plante d’intérieur means she is moving the plant into a new pot, not planting it for the first time.