Avec sa nouvelle frange, elle dit qu’elle a enfin trouvé un peigne qui ne tire pas trop.

In this sentence, une frange means bangs in hair vocabulary.

• In British English, fringe is actually the normal word.
• In American English, people usually say bangs.

So sa nouvelle frange means her new bangs / her new fringe.

Avec means with.

So Avec sa nouvelle frange literally means With her new bangs/fringe.

At the start of the sentence, this phrase sets the context:

• With her new bangs, she says...
• More naturally in English: Now that she has new bangs, she says...

French often begins with this kind of prepositional phrase to establish the situation before giving the main statement.

French possessive adjectives agree with the thing possessed, not with the owner.

Here:

• frange is feminine singular
• so the possessive is sa

That is true even though the owner is elle.

So:

• sa frange = her fringe/bangs
• but it could also mean his fringe/bangs in another context, because sa depends on frange, not on the person.

Elle dit que means she says that.

Breakdown:

• elle = she
• dit = says
• que = that

In French, que introduces a clause after verbs like dire, penser, croire, etc.

So:

• elle dit qu’elle a enfin trouvé... = she says that she has finally found...

In natural English, that is often omitted:

• she says she’s finally found...

French usually keeps que.

This is because of elision.

When que comes before a word beginning with a vowel or silent h, the e drops and becomes an apostrophe:

• que elle → qu’elle
• que il → qu’il
• que on → qu’on

This is very common in French and helps pronunciation flow more smoothly.

A trouvé is the passé composé, a very common past tense in French.

It is formed with:

• auxiliary verb avoir or être
• plus a past participle

Here:

• a = has
• trouvé = found

So elle a trouvé literally means she has found, but in English it may be translated as:

• she has found
• or she found

depending on context.

In this sentence, a enfin trouvé is naturally has finally found.

Enfin means finally.

In this sentence:

• elle a enfin trouvé = she has finally found

It shows that this took some time or effort, and now she has succeeded.

French adverbs like enfin often go between the auxiliary and the past participle:

• a enfin trouvé

That placement is very normal.

Un peigne means a comb.

It is a masculine noun:

• un peigne
• le peigne

So the phrase:

• trouvé un peigne means
• found a comb

Here qui is a relative pronoun meaning that or which.

It refers back to un peigne:

• un peigne qui... = a comb that...

We use qui because it is the subject of the verb tire.

So:

• un peigne qui ne tire pas trop = a comb that doesn’t pull too much

A helpful comparison:

• qui = used when the following word is a verb and qui is the subject
• que = used when the following word is a subject and que is the object

Example:

• le peigne qui tire = the comb that pulls
• le peigne que j’utilise = the comb that I use

Yes. Tirer generally means to pull.

Here it is being used in the context of hair, so un peigne qui ne tire pas trop means:

• a comb that doesn’t pull too much
• more naturally: a comb that doesn’t tug too much on her hair

French often uses simple verbs like tirer in everyday physical situations where English might choose a slightly more specific verb like tug.

Ne ... pas is the basic French negation: not.

So:

• ne tire pas = does not pull

Then trop means too much.

Together:

• ne tire pas trop = doesn’t pull too much = doesn’t tug too hard

So the sentence does not mean the comb never pulls at all. It means it does not pull excessively.

Because trop is an adverb here, not a noun.

It modifies the verb tire:

• tire trop = pulls too much

French adverbs do not take articles.

Compare:

• Il parle trop. = He talks too much.
• Ça coûte trop cher. = That costs too much.

Yes, but it is very standard French word order.

The structure is:

• Avec sa nouvelle frange = context phrase
• elle dit = main clause
• qu’elle a enfin trouvé = reported statement
• un peigne qui ne tire pas trop = object with a relative clause

So the sentence builds step by step:

1. set the context
2. say what she says
3. explain what she found
4. describe the comb

French often stacks information this way, and it is very normal.

Yes. Frange can have other meanings depending on context, such as:

• a fringe/edge
• a segment or section of society in expressions like une frange de la population

But in this sentence, because of peigne and the mention of a new frange, it clearly refers to hair: bangs/fringe.

It sounds natural and idiomatic.

A French speaker would understand it as something like:

• she has new bangs
• apparently combing them has been uncomfortable
• now she says she has finally found a comb that doesn’t tug too much

The wording is everyday, especially:

• elle dit que
• a enfin trouvé
• qui ne tire pas trop

So this is good, natural spoken/written French.