Premier Nous sommes au premier = We are on the first floor.
Nous sommes à deux de jeu = We are even; We are a match for each other; Two can play at that game.
Enseigne Nous sommes logés à la même enseigne = We are both in the same predicament, in the same boat.
Nous sommes de compte à demi dans l’entreprise = We are partners on equal terms in the venture; We are going halves in the venture.
Laine Nous sommes allés chercher de la laine et nous sommes revenus tondus = We went out to shear and returned shorn; The biter bit.
If we answer Nous sommes neutres, they will certainly try to occupy us; then the case of self-defence arises and the claim to be protected by the other powers.
No mob orator sprang upon a café chair to say "Nous sommes trahis!
Nous sommes ici," he said, as though the Germans would have to reckon with him.
They must not even know that in war time there were wounded men; otherwise they might get so depressed or so enraged that (thought the French Government) there might be the old cry of "Nous sommes trahis!
Yet here were refugees from Lille who had heard the roar of German guns, and brought incredible stories of French troops in retreat, and spoke the name of a French general with bitter scorn, and the old cry of "Nous sommes trahis!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nous sommes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
