La majorité rejette la résolution.

In French, it is very common to use the definite article with abstract or institutional nouns where English might sometimes omit it. Here, la majorité means the majority.

So:

• la majorité = the majority
• majorité by itself would usually sound incomplete in this sentence

This phrase often refers to the larger group in a vote, assembly, or decision-making body.

Because the subject is la majorité, and that noun is grammatically singular.

Even though the majority refers to many people, French normally makes the verb agree with the noun majorité, not with the individuals inside the group.

So:

• La majorité rejette = singular subject + singular verb

This is similar to English when we say the majority rejects in more formal usage.

Rejette is the present tense of the verb rejeter (to reject).

It is the third-person singular form, because it goes with la majorité.

Conjugation in the present tense:

• je rejette
• tu rejettes
• il/elle/on rejette
• nous rejetons
• vous rejetez
• ils/elles rejettent

So in the sentence, la majorité rejette means the majority rejects or the majority is rejecting, depending on context.

This happens because rejeter is a stem-changing verb in the present tense.

In forms where the ending is silent, the e in the stem often changes in spelling to help preserve pronunciation:

• rejeter
• je rejette
• tu rejettes
• il/elle rejette
• ils/elles rejettent

But:

• nous rejetons
• vous rejetez

The extra t helps keep the sound consistent.

In this sentence, la résolution most likely means the resolution in the political, parliamentary, or formal-decision sense.

That is, it refers to:

• a formal proposal
• a motion
• an official text submitted for approval

It does not usually mean a personal New Year’s resolution here.

So the sentence is probably about a vote, debate, council, committee, or assembly.

French usually needs an article before a noun in a normal statement.

So:

• la résolution = the resolution
• une résolution = a resolution

Using no article here would generally be ungrammatical in standard French.

A careful pronunciation would be approximately:

la ma-jo-ri-tay ruh-zhett la ray-zo-loo-syon

More naturally in IPA:

[la ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.te ʁə.ʒɛt la ʁe.zɔ.ly.sjɔ̃]

A few points:

• majorité ends with -té, pronounced like tay
• rejette has a zh sound in the middle, like the s in measure
• résolution ends with a nasal sound -sion = sjɔ̃

Yes. Very often, French uses la majorité de + noun to mean the majority of ...

For example:

• La majorité des députés rejette la résolution. = The majority of the deputies reject(s) the resolution.

In your sentence, la majorité stands alone because the group is understood from context.

Yes, it sounds fairly formal or institutional.

Words like:

• majorité
• rejette
• résolution

are very common in news reports, politics, legal contexts, meeting minutes, and official discussions.

A more everyday sentence might use simpler nouns depending on context, but this sentence itself is perfectly normal French.

Yes. Depending on context, rejeter can mean:

• to reject
• to throw back
• to dismiss
• to rule out

But in this sentence, with la résolution, the meaning is clearly to reject in the sense of voting against or refusing approval.

Yes. That would be the passé composé, which usually refers to a completed past action.

Compare:

• La majorité rejette la résolution. = The majority rejects the resolution. / is rejecting the resolution.

• La majorité a rejeté la résolution. = The majority rejected the resolution.

So the original sentence is in the present tense, while a rejeté puts the action in the past.