La contre-visite est demain.

Contre-visite usually means a follow-up inspection, re-inspection, or sometimes a return check-up, depending on context.

Common uses include:

• vehicle inspection: a second inspection after a problem was found
• medical/administrative context: a follow-up examination or check

So the exact English wording depends on the situation, but grammatically the French sentence itself is straightforward.

Because contre-visite is a fixed compound noun in French. Many compound words use a hyphen, especially older or established forms.

Here:

• contre- is a prefix-like element
• visite is the noun

Together they form one lexical item: contre-visite.

You should usually learn it as a whole word rather than trying to build it yourself each time.

La is the definite article, so it means the.

French often uses the definite article when talking about a specific scheduled event that both speaker and listener already know about:

• La contre-visite est demain. = The follow-up inspection is tomorrow.

If you said Une contre-visite est demain, that would sound unusual in most normal situations, because une introduces something less specific, and here the event is clearly a particular one already identified.

Because demain is an adverb of time, and in French it normally does not need a preposition.

So:

• est demain = is tomorrow

Compare:

• aujourd'hui = today
• demain = tomorrow
• hier = yesterday

These usually appear directly:

• La réunion est aujourd'hui.
• Le rendez-vous est demain.

By contrast, with a clock time or date, French often uses a preposition:

• à 10 heures
• le 5 mai

French, like English, often uses the present tense for scheduled future events.

So:

• La contre-visite est demain. literally uses present tense, but naturally refers to the future.

This is very common with dates, appointments, plans, and timetables:

• Le concert est samedi.
• Mon examen est lundi.

You could also use the future in some contexts, but the present sounds very natural here.

Yes, La contre-visite sera demain is grammatically correct.

Difference in feel:

• est demain: more natural and common for a scheduled event
• sera demain: a bit more formal, heavier, or more emphatic

In everyday speech, French often prefers the present tense for this kind of sentence.

A helpful approximate pronunciation is:

la kontʁə vizit ɛ dəmɛ̃

A few points:

• contre: the r is the French r
• visite: the last e is usually not strongly pronounced
• est sounds like ɛ
• demain ends with a nasal sound, roughly -mɛ̃

There is also a natural linking flow in speech:

• contre-visite est may sound smoothly connected, though there is no required written change

Yes. You can move demain for emphasis or style.

For example:

• La contre-visite est demain.
• Demain, c'est la contre-visite.
• Demain a lieu la contre-visite. (more formal)

The original sentence is simple and natural. If you move demain, you may need to reshape the sentence a little so it sounds idiomatic.

Yes, but it is more marked in tone.

• La contre-visite est demain. = neutral, standard
• C'est demain, la contre-visite. = more conversational, often with emphasis, as if reminding someone or reacting emotionally

French often uses c'est structures in speech, especially for emphasis.

Yes. The noun contre-visite is feminine, so it takes:

• la contre-visite
• une contre-visite

This is because the head noun is visite, which is feminine:

• une visite

The gender stays feminine even in the compound noun.

Because this is a very common French pattern for identifying when something happens:

• Le rendez-vous est demain.
• La réunion est lundi.
• Le match est à 20 heures.

Structure:

• subject: La contre-visite
• verb: est
• time expression: demain

It works much like English The appointment is tomorrow, so the grammar here is quite direct.

It is neutral. It works in both speech and writing.

It is:

• not especially formal
• not slangy
• very natural in everyday French

You could hear it in:

• conversation
• text messages
• emails
• administrative or practical discussion

So it is a very useful everyday sentence pattern.