Breakdown of Une petite pause suffit pour calmer Marie.
Marie
Marie
pour
in order to
la pause
the break
calmer
to calm
Questions & Answers about Une petite pause suffit pour calmer Marie.
Why is it petite pause and not petit pause?
How do you know that pause is feminine? It doesn’t look feminine like fille or table.
You mostly have to learn the gender of each noun with its article.
- We say une pause, not un pause → that makes it feminine.
- Many abstract or “activity” nouns ending in -e are feminine (une danse, une marche, une visite), but this is only a tendency, not a rule.
The safest habit: always learn la pause / une pause together with the noun, not just pause.
What exactly does suffit mean? Is it just “is enough”?