"It is an efficient service network."

Translation: C'est un réseau de services efficace.

[Shirlgirl007]

why must services here be plural? And yet the rest of the sentence is not plural.. efficaces, des, ?

[AmineHadji1]

When we speak about service (the tertiary economical sector), we always use les services in French. Now about the rest of the sentence (efficace, un), keep in mind we are referring to the network = le réseau, which is indeed singular. (It is an efficient network = C'est un réseau efficace)

[Marie282520]

very helpful as usual.

[Ripcurlgirl]

Merci beaucoup pour ton explication géniale !

[Brianary]

What is a "service network"? I see a thread suggesting "service" has to do with the customer service industry, but I can't apply that definition here and make sense out of this sentence.

[LSadun]

In a recent sentence we learned about "le service DES transports", but here we have "un reseau DE services". In both cases, de(s) refers to a plural object. So why the difference? What's the rule on when to use de and when to use des?

[W-Ruggles-Wolfe]

I clicked thru to the definition of réseau, which is given as "network, rang".

Rang? Can someone explain? Write a French sentence which uses réseau in this manner?

https://www.duolingo.com/dictionary/French/r%C3%A9seau-noun-masculine-singular/a35782901c3277a1f77e0136a0e34ece

[Ripcurlgirl]

It means "ring" as in a clandestine organisation "ring of spies" etc.

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/r%C3%A9seau