Breakdown of Tu veux rester à l'hôtel.
tu
you (informal singular)
l'hôtel
the hotel (m)
à
at / to / in (general locations) / about (what one thinks about / reacts to)
vouloir
to want
rester
to stay
Questions & Answers about Tu veux rester à l'hôtel.
Why does vouloir become veux here?
Vouloir (to want) is a highly irregular verb. For tu (you, informal), the present tense form is tu veux. It doesn't follow the normal verb ending rules, so its forms just have to be memorized. Note that the "x" at the end is completely silent!
Why is rester in its full dictionary form instead of being conjugated?
In French, when two verbs are right next to each other and share the same subject, only the first verb is conjugated. So, vouloir is conjugated as tu veux, and rester stays in its infinitive (unconjugated dictionary) form. This works just like English: "You want to stay."
Wait, doesn't rester mean "to rest"?
Why is it à l'hôtel instead of à le hôtel?
Hôtel is a masculine noun, but in French, the letter "h" at the beginning of a word is almost always silent. This means the word acts like it starts with a vowel. To make pronunciation smoother, you drop the "e" in le (the) and replace it with an apostrophe, giving you l'hôtel. Then you simply place the preposition à (at/to) in front of it.
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