Word
Tu dois envoyer un message au client.
Meaning
You have to send a message to the client.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Tu dois envoyer un message au client.
tu
you (informal singular)
le message
the message
au
to the / at the (masculine singular)
le client
the client / the customer
Questions & Answers about Tu dois envoyer un message au client.
Why do we use dois in this sentence?
Dois is the "you" (tu) form of the verb devoir, which means "must" or "to have to". The present tense conjugation for tu is always tu dois.
Could I translate Tu dois as "You must" instead of "You have to"?
Why is envoyer (to send) left in its full dictionary form instead of being conjugated?
In French, when two verbs are used together to express a single idea, only the first one is conjugated. Since dois is already conjugated to match tu, the second verb (envoyer) stays in its dictionary form (called the infinitive).