La surveillante nous regarde.

La is the feminine singular definite article, meaning the.

So la surveillante means the female supervisor / the monitor / the female hall monitor, depending on context.

French nouns usually need an article much more often than English nouns do, so using la here is completely normal.

Surveillante is a feminine noun meaning something like female supervisor, female monitor, or in a school context often female hall monitor / staff supervisor.

It is the feminine form of surveillant.

• un surveillant = a male supervisor/monitor
• une surveillante = a female supervisor/monitor

The ending -e here helps mark the word as feminine.

In French, object pronouns usually come before the conjugated verb.

So:

• elle nous regarde = she is looking at us
• not elle regarde nous

Here, nous is a direct object pronoun meaning us.

This is a very common French pattern:

• Il me voit = He sees me
• Je te connais = I know you
• La surveillante nous regarde = The supervisor is looking at us

Here, nous means us.

French nous can mean either:

• we when it is the subject
• us when it is the object

In this sentence, la surveillante is the subject because she is doing the action.
So nous must be the object: the supervisor is looking at us.

Because the subject is la surveillante, which is she / third person singular.

The verb regarder in the present tense is:

• je regarde
• tu regardes
• il / elle regarde
• nous regardons
• vous regardez
• ils / elles regardent

Since la surveillante = she, the correct form is regarde.

If the subject were we, then you would say nous regardons.

Yes. In this sentence, regarde is the present tense of regarder.

So it means:

• is looking at
• looks at

In many simple French sentences, the present tense can translate into natural English in more than one way depending on context.

Because French regarder usually takes a direct object, while English look often needs at.

So English says:

• look at us

But French says literally:

• regarder nous → actually nous regarder in proper pronoun order

So La surveillante nous regarde translates naturally as The supervisor is looking at us, even though French does not use a separate word for at here.

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

lah sur-vay-YAHNT noo ruh-GAHRD

A few helpful notes:

• surveillante has the sound -yant at the end
• nous sounds like noo
• regarde ends with a pronounced -ard sound
• the final -e in regarde is not pronounced

The exact French pronunciation is more subtle, but this approximation is a good start.

Not always. The best translation depends on context.

Possible translations include:

• the supervisor
• the monitor
• the hall monitor
• the staff member on duty
• the female supervisor

In a school setting, surveillante often refers to someone supervising students rather than a corporate-style supervisor.

So the meaning is clear in French, but the most natural English wording depends on the situation.

The structure is:

Subject + object pronoun + verb

• La surveillante = subject
• nous = object pronoun
• regarde = verb

This may feel unusual to an English speaker, because English would say:

The supervisor looks at us

But French commonly puts object pronouns before the verb:

La surveillante nous regarde