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Vous faites toujours une sieste le week-end.

Vous faites toujours une sieste le week-end.
You always take a nap on the weekend.
From Lesson 38:The verb to do/make (faire)·French

Questions & Answers about Vous faites toujours une sieste le week-end.

Why is it faites instead of "faisez"?
The verb faire (to do/make) is highly irregular in the present tense. For the vous form, it doesn't follow the normal pattern of adding -ez to the stem. Instead, it becomes vous faites. This is one of the few verbs in French that ends in -tes for the vous form (another common one is vous êtes - you are).
Why does the French sentence use faites (make/do) when the English says "take" a nap?
In French, you don't "take" a nap, you "do" or "make" a nap. The fixed expression is faire une sieste. French uses the verb faire for many everyday activities, sports, and chores where English uses other verbs.
Why is toujours placed after the verb rather than before it?
In English, we usually put frequency adverbs like "always" before the main verb ("You always take..."). In French, short adverbs like toujours (always) usually go right after the conjugated verb. That is why it is Vous faites toujours....
Where is the word for "on" in le week-end?
In French, you don't use a preposition like "on" for days of the week or the weekend. To say you do something regularly on a certain day, you just use the definite article le before it. So, le week-end naturally means "on the weekend" or "on weekends".

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