Dans cette phrase, le verbe est facile à trouver.

Dans cette phrase means in this sentence.

It is a prepositional phrase:

• dans = in
• cette = this
• phrase = sentence

French often places this kind of time/place/context expression at the beginning to set the scene. You could also say:

Le verbe est facile à trouver dans cette phrase.

That is also correct, but starting with Dans cette phrase puts extra focus on the sentence itself.

French demonstratives change according to the gender and number of the noun.

phrase is a feminine singular noun, so you use cette.

The forms are:

• ce = masculine singular
• cet = masculine singular before a vowel sound
• cette = feminine singular
• ces = plural

So:

• ce livre = this book
• cet exercice = this exercise
• cette phrase = this sentence
• ces phrases = these sentences

The comma separates the introductory phrase from the main clause.

Here:

• Dans cette phrase = introductory context
• le verbe est facile à trouver = main statement

The comma is very natural when a phrase like this comes first, especially in writing. It helps readability. In everyday French, you may sometimes see it omitted, but with this sentence the comma is perfectly standard.

In French, nouns usually need a determiner such as an article or demonstrative.

So French normally says:

• le verbe = the verb
• un verbe = a verb
• ce verbe = this verb

Unlike English, where you can sometimes say something like Verb is easy to find only in special contexts or labels, French generally requires the article in a normal sentence. So le verbe is the natural form here.

This is a very common French structure:

être + adjective + à + infinitive

It often corresponds to English:

• is easy to find
• is hard to understand
• is ready to eat

So:

• facile à trouver = easy to find
• difficile à comprendre = difficult to understand
• agréable à lire = pleasant to read

In this sentence:

• est = is
• facile = easy
• à trouver = to find

Together: is easy to find

Because after adjectives like facile, French usually uses à + infinitive.

So you say:

• facile à trouver
• difficile à voir
• simple à expliquer

You generally do not say facile trouver.

The à is part of the pattern. It does not always translate directly word-for-word into English, but it is required in French.

Because it comes after the adjective phrase facile à.

In French, after this structure, the second verb stays in the infinitive:

• facile à trouver
• difficile à faire
• impossible à ignorer

So trouver means to find, not finds, found, or finding.

Yes, there is a kind of passive-like meaning.

French often uses this structure where English also sounds passive in meaning:

• Le verbe est facile à trouver = The verb is easy to find.
• Literally, it is not a full passive like is found, but the meaning is someone can find it easily.

So the subject le verbe is the thing being found, even though French uses the active infinitive trouver rather than something like à être trouvé.

Because le verbe is already the subject of the sentence.

The structure is:

• le verbe = subject
• est = verb
• facile à trouver = complement

So:

• Le verbe est facile à trouver. = The verb is easy to find.

You would use c’est in other kinds of sentences, for example:

• C’est un verbe difficile. = It’s a difficult verb.
• C’est facile. = It’s easy.

But here, since the subject is clearly named as le verbe, plain est is correct.

Facile agrees with the noun it describes, but its masculine and feminine singular forms are spelled the same.

Here, verbe is masculine singular, so we use singular facile.

Forms:

• masculine singular: facile
• feminine singular: facile
• masculine plural: faciles
• feminine plural: faciles

So if the subject were plural, you would write:

• Les verbes sont faciles à trouver.

No, that would not be correct here.

With facile, the usual structure is:

• facile à + infinitive

So:

• Le verbe est facile à trouver. ✅
• Le verbe est facile de trouver. ❌

French does use de + infinitive after some adjectives or expressions, but not this one in this pattern.

No. The main conjugated verb is est.

Sentence breakdown:

• Dans cette phrase = introductory phrase
• le verbe = subject
• est = main conjugated verb
• facile à trouver = adjective phrase, containing the infinitive trouver

So trouver is a second verb in infinitive form, but it is not the main finite verb of the sentence.

You would make the noun, article, verb, and adjective plural:

Dans cette phrase, les verbes sont faciles à trouver.

Changes:

• le → les
• verbe → verbes
• est → sont
• facile → faciles

This is a good example of agreement in French.

A careful pronunciation is roughly:

dahn set fraz, luh vairb ay fah-seel ah troo-vay

A few useful notes:

• dans sounds like dahn
• cette sounds like set
• phrase sounds like fraz
• le is a light luh
• verbe is roughly vairb
• est is pronounced like ay
• facile is fah-seel
• à trouver is ah troo-vay

In natural speech, le verbe est may flow together smoothly, but there is no obligatory liaison here in standard pronunciation.