cardboard box

cardboard box
A noun phrase is a group of words that acts like a noun in a sentence or phrase (e.g., un je ne sais quoi).
noun phrase
a. la boîte en carton
(f) means that a noun is feminine. French nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la dame or la lune) or masculine (like l'homme or le soleil).
(F)
When I got home, my girlfriend had put all my stuff in a cardboard box and left it on the front doorstep.Quand je suis rentré chez moi, ma petite amie avait mis toutes mes affaires dans une boîte en carton et l'avait laissée sur le pas de la porte.
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