Breakdown of Cette agence embauche des personnes créatives pour ses campagnes.
Questions & Answers about Cette agence embauche des personnes créatives pour ses campagnes.
Why is it cette agence?
Cette is the feminine singular form of the demonstrative adjective. It agrees with agence, which is a singular feminine noun.
The main forms are:
- ce = masculine singular
- cet = masculine singular before a vowel or mute h
- cette = feminine singular
- ces = plural
Also, cette can mean this or that depending on context. French usually does not insist on the same this/that distinction that English does.
Why is agence feminine?
Why is the verb embauche and not embaucher or embauches?
Embaucher is the infinitive, meaning to hire. In the sentence, the verb is conjugated in the present tense.
The subject is cette agence, which is third-person singular, so the verb form is embauche:
- j'embauche
- tu embauches
- il/elle/on embauche
So Cette agence embauche... means This agency hires...
Also, the final -e in embauche is not pronounced.
What is des doing in des personnes?
Here, des is the plural indefinite article. It means some or simply marks an indefinite plural noun.
So des personnes means people or some people, not the people.
Compare:
- des personnes = some people / people
- les personnes = the people
French often needs an article here even when English would just say people with no article.
Why does créatives come after personnes?
Why is it créatives with -es?
Why is créatives feminine even if the people could include men?
Why is it ses campagnes and not leurs campagnes?
Because the owner is singular: cette agence = one agency.
In French:
Since campagnes is plural, the correct form for one owner is ses:
- ses campagnes = its campaigns
If several agencies owned the campaigns, you would use leurs campagnes.
Also, French does not add another article here. You say ses campagnes, not les ses campagnes.
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