Translate: “The sister has a pencil.” He paused, then wrote: La sœur a un crayon.

Conjugate “être” for “nous.” The protagonist wrote: sommes .

The night before the quiz, he found himself not in the library, but in the tech lab, helping Jenny with a server issue. Between fixing network cables, he blurted out, “Jenny, you took French last year. What’s the deal with ‘être’?”