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mercredi 6 août 2008

How to ask questions in French

I am back after missing for a while now. I have learned more now and have registered to do another year of French. I actually signed up for level 3 (intermediate), which is quite ambitious of me! I hope I will do ok.

Back to the topic, asking questions in French.

So far, I know there are 3 ways of doing this:
  1. First and probably the easiest way, is to raise your pitch at the end of a sentence. For example: Vous voulez manger quelque chose? (You want to eat something?)
  2. Secondly, you can add "Est-ce que" in front of the sentence. For example: Est-ce que vous voulez manger quelque chose? (Do you want to eat something?)
  3. Finally, is to invert the verb and the subject pronoun. For example: Voulez-vous manger quelque chose? (Do you want to eat something?)

They are all pretty similar and not too difficult to remember at all. Of course, asking someone "do you want to eat something" can sound a bit impolite, usually in English we would ask "Would you like to eat something?" This is the same for French.

So you go:

  1. Vous voudriez manger quelque chose? (You would like to eat something?)
  2. Est-ce que vous voudriez manger quelque chose? (Would you like to eat something?)
  3. Voudriez-vous manger quelque chose? (Would you like to eat something?)

Voudriez is a conditional form of the verb vouloir, to want. For subject pronoun "Je", it will be "je voudrais" (I would like). For example, Je voudrais manger quelque chose (I would like to eat something).

Well that's it for this time. Any comments are welcomed!

1 commentaires:

cindy a dit…

C'est moi pas mois. Mois = month
moi= me