Breakdown of Vous êtes très patients avec nous.
être
to be
très
very
nous
we / us (object pronoun)
vous
you (plural/formal)
Questions & Answers about Vous êtes très patients avec nous.
Why do we use nous after avec?
In French, whenever a pronoun comes after a preposition like avec (with), pour (for), or chez (at the home of), you must use a stressed pronoun. For the English word us, the French stressed pronoun is exactly the same as the subject word for we, which is nous.
Wait, doesn't nous normally mean we?
It can be both! When it is doing the action as the subject of the sentence, nous means we. But when it is used as a stressed pronoun after a preposition like in avec nous, it translates to us.
Why does the adjective patients have an s at the end?
In French, adjectives have to match the person or thing they describe. Because the subject vous (you) is being used to address multiple people here, we add an s to make the adjective plural. If you were speaking formally to just one man, it would be patient, and for one woman, patiente.