Breakdown of Est-ce qu'il faut faire du sport pour améliorer sa santé ?
pour
for
est-ce que
is it that / do / does (question marker)
faire
to do, to make
son
his/her/its (son, sa, ses)
du
some (partitive, masculine)
le sport
the sport / the exercise
il
it (impersonal subject)
falloir
to be necessary / must (impersonal)
améliorer
to improve
la santé
the health
faire du sport
to do sport, to exercise
Questions & Answers about Est-ce qu'il faut faire du sport pour améliorer sa santé ?
Why does améliorer end in -er instead of being conjugated?
Améliorer is in its dictionary form (the infinitive) because it comes right after pour. When you use pour to say 'in order to,' the verb that follows is always in the infinitive.
The translation says 'Do you have to', but doesn't il mean 'he'?
Normally, yes! But il faut is a fixed phrase meaning 'it is necessary' or 'one must.' The il here doesn't refer to a real person. In English, we often translate this general idea as 'you have to.'
If the sentence means 'your health', why does it use sa instead of ta or votre?
Why is it du sport instead of just le sport?
When talking about doing a sport or activity, French uses the verb faire with a partitive article like du or de la. Du means 'some,' so faire du sport means 'to do some sports.'
What happens to que in Est-ce qu'il?
The phrase Est-ce que is the standard way to ask a yes/no question. Because the next word (il) starts with a vowel, the e at the end of que is dropped and replaced with an apostrophe to make it flow better.
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