Le pressing est juste à côté de la poissonnerie.

Yes, it comes from English, but in French un pressing means a dry cleaner’s / dry-cleaning shop. This is one of those words that looks English but is used differently in French.

So:

• le pressing = the dry cleaner’s
• not usually the pressing in normal English

It is a masculine noun, which is why it takes le.

Because pressing is masculine in French.

French nouns have grammatical gender, and you have to learn each noun with its article:

• le pressing
• la poissonnerie

There is no strong logical reason from the spelling alone here—you simply have to memorize the gender.

Here, juste means right or just, as in:

• juste à côté de = right next to
• juste là = right there

So juste adds emphasis. Without it:

• Le pressing est à côté de la poissonnerie.

That still means The dry cleaner’s is next to the fish shop, but juste makes it feel more exact: right next to.

À côté de is a fixed expression meaning:

• next to
• beside

It is made of:

• à côté = at the side
• de = of / from, but in this expression it links to the thing beside it

So:

• à côté de la poissonnerie = next to the fish shop

You should learn à côté de as one chunk.

Examples:

• La banque est à côté du cinéma.
• J’habite à côté de l’école.

Because after à côté de, French normally keeps the article of the noun that follows.

Since poissonnerie is feminine singular, it takes la:

• à côté de la poissonnerie

Compare:

• à côté du cinéma (de + le = du)
• à côté de la boulangerie
• à côté de l’hôtel

So the form changes depending on the gender and first letter of the noun.

Because poissonnerie is feminine.

French contractions work like this:

• de + le = du
• de + la = de la
• de + l’ = de l’
• de + les = des

So:

• le cinéma → à côté du cinéma
• la poissonnerie → à côté de la poissonnerie

Une poissonnerie is a fish shop / fishmonger’s shop.

It comes from poisson meaning fish. The ending -erie often refers to a shop or place associated with something.

Similar patterns:

• boulanger → boulangerie
• boucher → boucherie
• pâtissier → pâtisserie

So poissonnerie is the place where fish is sold.

Because this is a straightforward sentence with a clear subject:

• Le pressing est...

The subject is le pressing, and the verb is est from être.

You use c’est in many situations too, but here le pressing est... is the most natural structure because you are directly describing the location of a specific place.

Compare:

• Le pressing est à côté de la poste. = normal descriptive sentence
• C’est le pressing. = That’s the dry cleaner’s.

So est is simply the verb agreeing with the subject le pressing.

French uses articles more often than English does. With shops, buildings, and places, French commonly uses the definite article:

• le pressing
• la poissonnerie

Even where English might sometimes say:

• Dry cleaner’s is next to fish shop in very informal shorthand,

French normally keeps the articles.

In full natural English, you would also usually say:

• The dry cleaner’s is next to the fish shop.

So in this sentence, the articles are completely normal.

Yes, but only when nothing follows it.

Examples:

• Il habite à côté. = He lives nearby / next door.
• Le pressing est à côté. = The dry cleaner’s is next door / nearby.

But if you say what it is next to, you need de:

• Le pressing est à côté de la poissonnerie.

So:

• à côté = nearby / next door
• à côté de + noun = next to + noun

The word order is very standard:

• Le pressing = subject
• est = verb
• juste = adverb
• à côté de la poissonnerie = prepositional phrase showing location

So the structure is:

subject + verb + adverb + place expression

This is similar to English:

• The dry cleaner’s is right next to the fish shop.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

Le pressing est juste à côté de la poissonnerie
≈ luh press-eeng ay zhoost ah koh-tay duh la pwah-sonn-ree

A few useful notes:

• pressing in French is pronounced in a French way, not exactly like English
• juste sounds like zhoost
• à côté has a clear ay sound at the end of côté
• poissonnerie has pwah-son-ree, with the oi sounding like wah

You may also hear smooth linking in natural speech, but the main thing is getting the vowel sounds and stress pattern reasonably close.

Yes. That is also correct and very natural.

• Le pressing est juste à côté de la poissonnerie.
• Le pressing se trouve juste à côté de la poissonnerie.

Both mean basically the same thing.

The version with se trouve can sound a little more like:

• The dry cleaner’s is located right next to the fish shop

But in everyday speech, est is simpler and very common.

Yes, very much so. This is a very typical pattern:

• La pharmacie est à côté de la banque.
• Le café est en face de la gare.
• La boulangerie est près du supermarché.

So this sentence is useful as a model for giving directions or describing where places are.