Paul collectionne quatre-vingts vinyles.

Collectionne is the third-person singular present tense of the verb collectionner, which means to collect.

So:

• je collectionne = I collect
• tu collectionnes = you collect
• il / elle collectionne = he / she collects

Because the subject is Paul, the verb takes the il form: Paul collectionne = Paul collects.

French literally builds 80 as four twenties:

• quatre = four
• vingt = twenty

So quatre-vingts literally means four twenties.

This is one of the unusual parts of French numbers. A few nearby numbers work like this too:

• 60 = soixante
• 70 = soixante-dix (sixty-ten)
• 80 = quatre-vingts (four twenties)
• 90 = quatre-vingt-dix (four-twenty-ten)

In some French-speaking regions, especially Switzerland, you may also hear forms like huitante for 80, but quatre-vingts is the standard form taught for France.

The s appears because vingt takes an s when it is multiplied and not followed by another number.

So:

• quatre-vingts = 80 → s
• quatre-vingt-un = 81 → no s
• quatre-vingt-deux = 82 → no s

In Paul collectionne quatre-vingts vinyles, quatre-vingts stands alone as the number 80, so it keeps the s, even though a noun comes after it.

Because the sentence says 80 vinyl records, and 80 is more than one, the noun must be plural.

• singular: un vinyle = one vinyl record
• plural: des vinyles = vinyl records

So:

• Paul collectionne un vinyle = Paul collects one vinyl record
• Paul collectionne quatre-vingts vinyles = Paul collects eighty vinyl records

In French, when you use a specific number directly before a noun, you normally do not use an article like des.

So you say:

• trois livres = three books
• dix voitures = ten cars
• quatre-vingts vinyles = eighty vinyl records

Not:

• des quatre-vingts vinyles in this meaning

The number itself already determines the noun, so no article is needed.

Yes. In French, un vinyle commonly means a vinyl record. It is a normal countable noun.

So French speakers can say:

• un vinyle
• deux vinyles
• quatre-vingts vinyles

That is a little different from English, where vinyl is often treated as a material or mass noun, although English speakers also say a vinyl informally.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

katr-vin vee-neel

More precisely:

• Paul ≈ pol
• collectionne ≈ ko-lek-syon
• quatre-vingts ≈ katr-vin
• vinyles ≈ vee-neel

A few useful points:

• The final s in quatre-vingts is not pronounced here.
• The final s in vinyles is also not pronounced.
• vinyles sounds like vee-neel, with the stress pattern much flatter than in English.

This sentence follows the normal French word order:

subject + verb + object

• Paul = subject
• collectionne = verb
• quatre-vingts vinyles = object

That is the same basic order as in English:

Paul collects eighty vinyl records.

So the structure is very straightforward.

Yes. That means Paul collects vinyl records in a more general sense, without saying how many.

Compare:

• Paul collectionne des vinyles = Paul collects vinyl records
• Paul collectionne quatre-vingts vinyles = Paul collects eighty vinyl records

So the sentence with des is more general, while the sentence with quatre-vingts gives an exact quantity.

Collectionner is perfectly normal and natural. It specifically means to collect as a hobby or habit.

French speakers could also say things like:

• Paul a quatre-vingts vinyles = Paul has eighty vinyl records
• Paul fait collection de vinyles = Paul collects vinyl records / Paul has a vinyl collection

But Paul collectionne quatre-vingts vinyles is completely correct and natural.

Normally, no. After a number, French usually uses the noun directly:

• trois livres
• vingt euros
• quatre-vingts vinyles

You generally do not say quatre-vingts de vinyles.

You do see de after quantity expressions like:

• beaucoup de vinyles = a lot of vinyl records
• peu de vinyles = few vinyl records
• combien de vinyles = how many vinyl records

But with a simple cardinal number like quatre-vingts, just use the noun directly.