Le règlement de copropriété répartit les charges de copropriété.

Because règlement is a masculine noun in French, so it takes le in the singular.

• le règlement = the regulation / the set of rules
• un règlement = a regulation / a set of rules

This is something you usually just have to learn with the noun.

The two instances of copropriété do two different jobs:

• le règlement de copropriété = the co-ownership rules / condominium bylaws
• les charges de copropriété = the co-ownership fees / shared building expenses

So the sentence is built like this:

• Le règlement de copropriété = the subject
• répartit = the verb
• les charges de copropriété = the object

Even though the same noun appears twice, each phrase means something slightly different.

Here, de copropriété means something like relating to the co-owned building/property.

French often links nouns with de where English might use:

• of
• a noun used like an adjective
• a more natural compound expression

So:

• règlement de copropriété = rules of the co-ownership / condominium bylaws
• charges de copropriété = co-ownership charges / condo fees / shared ownership expenses

It is not literally a word-for-word English structure, but it is very normal in French.

Because in both phrases, copropriété is being used as a noun complement after another noun.

French very often uses this pattern:

• nom + de + nom

For example:

• une salle de bain = a bathroom
• un bureau de poste = a post office
• le règlement de copropriété

In this structure, you often use just de + noun without an article.

If you said de la copropriété, that would sound more like of the co-ownership in a more specific, separate sense, not as a fixed compound expression.

Répartit is the third-person singular present tense of répartir.

Conjugation in the present:

• je répartis
• tu répartis
• il/elle/on répartit
• nous répartissons
• vous répartissez
• ils/elles répartissent

In this sentence, the subject is Le règlement de copropriété, which is singular, so the verb is répartit.

It agrees with règlement, because règlement is the subject.

Structure:

• Le règlement de copropriété = subject
• répartit = verb
• les charges de copropriété = direct object

So the verb is singular because le règlement is singular.

A common mistake is to look at the nearest noun, but verb agreement depends on the subject, not just the closest noun.

Because charges refers to the various expenses or fees that are divided up in a shared property.

In this context, les charges often includes things like:

• maintenance
• cleaning
• repairs
• insurance
• shared utilities

So plural is very natural: it means the different categories of shared costs.

Not exactly. In property or legal French, charges often means expenses, costs, fees, or financial obligations, not just charges in the everyday English sense.

So les charges de copropriété usually means:

• condominium fees
• shared building expenses
• co-ownership charges

This is a good example of a French word that may look familiar to an English speaker but has a more specific meaning in context.

Because this sentence follows the very common French pattern:

• Subject + Verb + Object

So:

• Le règlement de copropriété = subject
• répartit = verb
• les charges de copropriété = object

This is one reason the sentence is quite readable for an English speaker, even if some vocabulary is specialized.

A careful pronunciation would be approximately:

Le règlement de copropriété répartit les charges de copropriété.
luh ray-gluh-mahn duh koh-pro-pree-ay ray-par-tee lay sharj duh koh-pro-pree-ay

A few useful points:

• règlement has a nasal ending in -ment
• répartit ends with a clear -ti sound
• charges sounds like sharj
• the final s in charges is silent

Depending on accent and speed, the exact sound may vary a little.

Yes, it is a standard legal/property expression.

It refers to the document or set of rules that governs a co-owned building or property. In English, depending on the country and legal system, it might be translated as:

• condominium bylaws
• co-ownership regulations
• condo rules
• governing rules of the property

So it is better to learn règlement de copropriété as a whole expression, not just as separate words.

Yes. All of those can work depending on context.

• distributes = fairly literal
• allocates = often good in legal or administrative language
• divides up = more everyday English

In this kind of property-management sentence, allocates or apportions may sound especially natural in formal English, but the French verb itself is simply répartir.

Because the sentence is referring to a specific set of charges: the charges of that co-owned property.

• les charges de copropriété = the co-ownership charges
• des charges de copropriété = some co-ownership charges

Using les suggests the full, identifiable set of charges that the rules are dealing with. That makes sense in a legal or administrative statement.