jowiltyk

[copper cedar]

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[hard comet]

Hey there! Are you familiar with verb conjugations?

[gusty elk]

C’est la conjugaison de l’indicatif présent, "Peut" s'utilise avec "il/elle/on" (Il peut venir).
"Pouvez" s'utilise avec "vous" (Vous pouvez m'aider)

[hard comet]

In other words:

• Peut: He/she/it can
• Pouvez: You (plural/formal) can

[still oriole]

ahh

what about "tu" can you say "tu pouvez" since tu and vous refers to you?

[hard comet]

You cannot.

As shown in Courtney's screenshot, 'tu' will always use 'peux' and 'vous' will always use 'pouvez'.

[still oriole]

donc pouvez es strictly seulement "vous pouvez"?

[hard comet]

Take English:

• I eat
• She eats
  It can never be 'I eats' or 'She eat'.

[still oriole]

ahhh dacc

[hard comet]

Correct!

[still oriole]

ahh j'ai compris!

how about trying to express "about" in "how about" and "what about"? 😅

[hard comet]

A simple way would just be using 'Et'.

How about/what about <X>?
Et <X> ?

Context will decide, really.

[still oriole]

ah got it

[gusty elk]

There are different ways to translate this depending on context but generally I would say "et si" for "how about" and "et" for what about

How about we go? = Et si on y allait?

What about this? = Et ça?

[still oriole]

c'est trop facile comparé la tranduction de google translate

[gusty elk]

Et si je vous disais que je suis italienne ? = what about if I told you I’m Italian?

[still oriole]

capitto