Paul ignore souvent son téléphone quand il cuisine une omelette.

Yes. Ignorer in French is a regular -er verb, and here ignore is the 3rd person singular present form:

• j’ignore
• tu ignores
• il/elle ignore
• nous ignorons
• vous ignorez
• ils/elles ignorent

So Paul ignore means Paul ignores.

One thing to watch out for: French ignorer can also mean to be unaware of / not know in some contexts, but in this sentence it clearly means to ignore.

In French, short adverbs of frequency like souvent often come after the conjugated verb.

So:

• Paul ignore souvent son téléphone.

is the normal word order.

This is different from English, where often can go before the main verb:

• Paul often ignores his phone.

French usually does subject + verb + adverb + object here.

Because téléphone is a masculine noun.

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

So:

• son téléphone = his phone
• also her phone could be son téléphone, because téléphone is masculine

The forms are:

• mon / ton / son for singular masculine nouns
• ma / ta / sa for singular feminine nouns
• mes / tes / ses for plural nouns

So the key is the gender of téléphone, not the gender of Paul.

Not by itself. Son téléphone can mean:

• his phone
• her phone

because French possessives do not tell you the owner’s gender in this case. They only match the noun being owned.

In this sentence, we know it means his phone because the subject is Paul.

French normally requires an explicit subject pronoun in a clause.

So you say:

• quand il cuisine = when he cooks

not:

• quand cuisine ❌

Even though Paul was already mentioned, French still repeats the subject pronoun in the subordinate clause.

Because the sentence describes a habit or something that happens regularly:

• Paul ignore souvent son téléphone quand il cuisine une omelette.

French uses the present tense for habitual actions, just like English often uses the simple present:

• Paul ignores his phone when he cooks an omelette.

So cuisine here means cooks / is cooking, depending on context, but in this sentence the overall meaning is habitual.

Because omelette is a feminine singular noun.

So the indefinite article is:

• un for masculine singular nouns
• une for feminine singular nouns

That gives:

• une omelette

Quand means when.

It introduces a time clause:

• quand il cuisine une omelette = when he cooks an omelette

So the full sentence structure is:

• main clause: Paul ignore souvent son téléphone
• time clause: quand il cuisine une omelette

This tells us when Paul often ignores his phone.

Sometimes French adverbs can move, but Paul ignore souvent son téléphone is the most natural basic order here.

These are possible to discuss:

• Paul ignore souvent son téléphone. ✅ natural
• Souvent, Paul ignore son téléphone... ✅ possible, with more emphasis on often
• Paul souvent ignore son téléphone. ❌ not natural in standard French

So for a learner, the safest pattern is:

• subject + conjugated verb + souvent + object

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• Paul ≈ pohl
• ignore ≈ ee-NYOHR
• souvent ≈ soo-VAHN
• son ≈ sohn
• téléphone ≈ tay-lay-FOHN
• quand ≈ kahn
• il ≈ eel
• cuisine ≈ kwee-ZEEN
• une ≈ a rounded oon
• omelette ≈ oh-MEHL-ET

A few useful notes:

• The gn in ignore sounds like ny.
• The final -ent in souvent is not pronounced.
• The final -d in quand is usually silent.
• In careful speech, there may be a liaison in some contexts, but you do not need to force one everywhere.

Because Paul is a proper noun (a person’s name), and in French, names usually do not take an article.

So you simply say:

• Paul ignore souvent son téléphone.

not:

• Le Paul ignore... ❌

Yes. French present tense often covers both ideas that English separates:

• he cooks
• he is cooking

So quand il cuisine une omelette can literally match either one depending on context.

In this sentence, because of souvent, the idea is more like a repeated habit:

• when he cooks an omelette
• or when he is making an omelette, in a general repeated sense

Yes, it is understandable and natural enough. It means he is ignoring his phone.

Depending on context, French could also use other expressions, such as:

• ne pas répondre à son téléphone = not answer his phone
• laisser son téléphone de côté = leave his phone aside

But ignorer son téléphone works well if the idea is that he deliberately pays no attention to it.