La réunion dure soixante minutes.

Because réunion is a feminine noun in French, so it takes the feminine singular article la.

A useful pattern: many French nouns ending in -ion are feminine, including la réunion, la nation, la conversation, and la décision.

So:

• la réunion = the meeting

In this sentence, yes. French uses articles more often than English does, and with a specific noun like réunion, you normally say la réunion rather than just réunion.

So French says:

• La réunion dure soixante minutes.

English might sometimes say:

• Meeting lasts sixty minutes in note form, but in normal speech you would also say:
• The meeting lasts sixty minutes.

A rough English approximation is ray-yoo-nyon.

More carefully:

• ré sounds like ray
• u is the French u sound, which is not exactly like English oo, but yoo is a helpful approximation
• nion sounds roughly like nyon

So réunion is approximately:

• ray-yoo-nyon

The whole sentence is roughly:

• la ray-yoo-nyon duur swah-sawnt mee-nyt

Dure is the verb, from the infinitive durer, which means to last.

Here it is in the present tense, third-person singular, because the subject is la réunion = the meeting.

So:

• durer = to last
• la réunion dure = the meeting lasts

Because dure is the conjugated verb, while durée is a different word.

Compare:

• dure = lasts / is lasting from the verb durer
• durée = duration or length as a noun

So:

• La réunion dure soixante minutes. = The meeting lasts sixty minutes.
• La durée de la réunion est de soixante minutes. = The duration of the meeting is sixty minutes.

Both are possible, but the first one is simpler and more natural in everyday speech.

Because after durer, French usually gives the duration directly, without a preposition.

So:

• La réunion dure soixante minutes.

This works just like English can also say:

• The meeting lasts sixty minutes.

English often includes for, but it is not required there either. French normally does not use pour here.

So La réunion dure pour soixante minutes would not be the normal way to say it.

Soixante means sixty.

It is the standard French word for 60:

• soixante minutes = sixty minutes

A pronunciation guide:

• soixante ≈ swah-sawnt

The final e is silent.

It has an s because the noun is plural: sixty minutes means more than one minute.

So:

• une minute = one minute
• deux minutes = two minutes
• soixante minutes = sixty minutes

The final s in minutes is usually not pronounced.

So although it is written:

• minutes

it sounds roughly like:

• mee-nyt

Yes. If the meeting lasts one hour, French speakers would very naturally say:

• La réunion dure une heure.

That often sounds more natural than soixante minutes, just as one hour often sounds more natural than sixty minutes in English.

So both are correct, but:

• une heure is often more everyday
• soixante minutes can sound a little more exact or formal

Not necessarily. In French, the present tense can be used to state a general fact, a scheduled fact, or something happening now, depending on context.

So La réunion dure soixante minutes can mean:

• the meeting normally lasts sixty minutes
• the meeting on the schedule lasts sixty minutes
• this meeting is lasting sixty minutes

If you wanted to be more explicitly future-oriented, you could also say:

• La réunion va durer soixante minutes. = The meeting is going to last sixty minutes.

Yes. The basic order is:

• La réunion = subject
• dure = verb
• soixante minutes = duration

So the normal structure is:

Subject + verb + duration

That is why:

• La réunion dure soixante minutes.

sounds natural.

French does not normally rearrange this to match every possible English phrasing. The straightforward pattern with durer is the standard one.