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Vous faites les courses au supermarché.

Vous faites les courses au supermarché.
You do the shopping at the supermarket.
From Lesson 38:The verb to do/make (faire)·French

Questions & Answers about Vous faites les courses au supermarché.

Why does vous faites end in -tes instead of the usual -ez?
Faire (to do/make) is a highly irregular verb. While almost all French verbs end in -ez for the vous form (like vous parlez), faire is one of the rare exceptions. You just have to memorize vous faites! Another common exception you might remember is vous êtes (you are).
How do you pronounce faites? Do I pronounce the "s" at the end?
No, the final "s" is completely silent. Faites sounds just like the English word "fret" without the "r" (fett). Notice that the ai here is pronounced like a short "e", which makes this word a bit tricky to say correctly!
Does faire les courses specifically mean grocery shopping?
Yes! The set phrase faire les courses specifically refers to grocery shopping or running regular household errands. If you mean shopping for clothes or fun things, the French actually use an English loanword: faire du shopping.
Why is it au supermarché instead of à le supermarché?
In French, the preposition à (at/to) and the masculine word le (the) can never stand next to each other. They always combine to form the single word au. Because supermarché is a masculine noun, we must say au supermarché.

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