Quel dommage, la boucherie est déjà fermée.

Yes. Quel dommage is a very common French exclamation meaning what a pity, what a shame, or too bad.

It is a set phrase used when something disappointing has happened.

Examples:

• Quel dommage ! = What a pity!
• C'est dommage. = That's a shame.

Compared with C'est dommage, Quel dommage often sounds a bit more emotional or exclamatory.

Because quel agrees with the noun that follows it, and dommage is a masculine singular noun.

So:

• quel dommage
• quelle surprise
• quels problèmes
• quelles idées

Even though English just says what a pity, French uses quel + noun, and the form has to match the noun grammatically.

French often uses short exclamatory phrases without a verb, just like English does sometimes.

So Quel dommage ! is a complete exclamation on its own, even though it does not literally contain a verb like is.

Other similar patterns:

• Quelle chance ! = What luck!
• Quelle horreur ! = How awful!
• Quelle idée ! = What an idea!

You can think of Quel dommage ! as an idiomatic exclamation rather than a full sentence with every element stated.

Yes. In everyday French, la boucherie commonly means the butcher's shop.

Related words:

• le boucher = the butcher (the person)
• la bouchère = the female butcher
• la boucherie = the butcher's shop

So:

• Le boucher est sympa. = The butcher is nice.
• La boucherie est fermée. = The butcher's shop is closed.

Depending on context, boucherie can also refer to butchery or even slaughter, but in a sentence about opening hours, it clearly means the shop.

Because la refers to a specific butcher's shop, one that is already known from the situation or context.

• La boucherie est déjà fermée. = The butcher's shop is already closed.
• Une boucherie est déjà fermée. would mean a butcher's shop is already closed, which sounds less natural unless you are introducing it for the first time in a broader discussion.

In this sentence, the speaker likely means the butcher's shop we wanted to go to.

Because fermée agrees with la boucherie, which is feminine singular.

French adjectives and many past participles used like adjectives agree with the noun they describe.

Compare:

• Le magasin est fermé. = The shop is closed.
• La boucherie est fermée. = The butcher's shop is closed.

So:

• masculine singular: fermé
• feminine singular: fermée

The extra -e usually does not change the pronunciation here, but it must be written.

Because fermé / fermée is the normal word used to mean closed for shops, businesses, doors, museums, and so on.

Examples:

• Le magasin est fermé.
• La banque est fermée.
• Le musée est fermé le lundi.

The word ferme does exist, but it usually means firm, strict, or steady, not closed.

So for opening/closing:

• fermé / fermée = closed
• ouvert / ouverte = open

In beginner terms, it is best understood as describing a state: the butcher's shop is closed.

Grammatically, it uses être + fermé(e), and that can sometimes look like a passive. But in everyday use, speakers usually just mean the result or condition, not the action itself.

So:

• La boucherie est fermée. = the shop is in a closed state.

If you wanted to focus on the action or the person who closed it, you would say more:

• La boucherie a été fermée par le propriétaire. = The butcher's shop was closed by the owner.

For this sentence, just think of it as is closed.

Déjà means already.

In simple tenses, French adverbs like déjà, souvent, toujours often come after the conjugated verb.

So:

• La boucherie est déjà fermée.

That is the normal word order.

Compare:

• Il est déjà parti. = He has already left.
• Nous sommes déjà prêts. = We are already ready.

English puts already in several possible places, but French is more regular here. Putting déjà right after est is the most natural choice.

A careful pronunciation would be roughly:

• Quel dommage → kel doh-mahzh
• la boucherie → la boo-shuh-ree
• est déjà fermée → eh day-zhah fehr-may

A bit more precisely in IPA:

• Quel dommage → /kɛl dɔ.maʒ/
• la boucherie → /la buʃ.ʁi/
• est déjà fermée → /ɛ de.ʒa fɛʁ.me/

A few useful points:

• The final -t in est is not pronounced.
• The final -e in fermée is not pronounced as a separate syllable.
• r in French is pronounced in the throat, unlike English r.

The comma is understandable, but many learners will more often see this written as:

• Quel dommage ! La boucherie est déjà fermée.

That version is very natural because Quel dommage ! is a complete exclamation.

You might also see:

• Quel dommage : la boucherie est déjà fermée.

So the original punctuation is not wrong in an everyday sense, but an exclamation mark or colon may feel a bit more natural in careful writing.

Yes, absolutely.

Both are natural:

• Quel dommage, la boucherie est déjà fermée.
• C'est dommage, la boucherie est déjà fermée.

The difference is mostly tone:

• Quel dommage sounds a bit more like an exclamation.
• C'est dommage sounds a bit more neutral or matter-of-fact.

Both are very common in spoken and written French.