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twilit quiver
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It's because in these types of sentences you have the pronoun before the verb.

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The first example doesn't sound right, you would say instead 'où est le restaurant'

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So you would have:

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  1. Où est le restaurant
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  1. Où est-ce qu'on est
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I would only use the 'est-ce que' if there is a pronoun afterwards

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I hope that makes sense 😭

wraith bane
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so for example : "ou est-ce qu'il est, le restaurant ? "
this should also be correst right? cuz theres directly a prounoun after the "est-ce-que"

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and im not sure but

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i think after " Où" we should always put either a verb or auxiliaryy

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like Où mangons nous ?

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is this right?

twilit quiver
twilit quiver
wraith bane
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tysmm

twilit quiver
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no problem anytime

shy nymph
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(1) -ger verbs have an added « e » between the stem and ending for some conjugations to keep the G soft
(2) It’s inversion so don’t forget the tiret

wraith bane
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what's tiret?

shy nymph
wraith bane
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ohhhh right

shy nymph
# wraith bane okk thanks for letting me know ^^

The logic here, by the way, is that G is ‘soft’ in front of front vowels, letters like ‘I, E’ (géant, Giscard – G is pronounced like J in James), and ‘hard’ elsewhere (gants, goût, Guillaume – G is pronounced like G in Gone). Because of that, if I were to say « mangons », people would think that G is hard because the ending starts with O, -ons, so we add an E between the stem mang- and the ending -ons to make « mangeons ». Because of how the present endings work, you’ll only see this with « nous » because it’s the only pronoun whose ending starts with a back vowel as it were (-e, -es, -e, -ons, -ez, -ent). All the singulars and the third person plural in the imperfect, for example, because they all start with a back vowel (-ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient) so you’ll see it there:
« je mangeais, tu mangeais, il mangeait, nous mangions, vous mangiez, ils mangeaient. »