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Je cuisine quelque chose pour la fête.

Je cuisine quelque chose pour la fête.
I am cooking something for the party.
From Lesson 62:Never (ne... jamais)·French

Breakdown of Je cuisine quelque chose pour la fête.

pour
for
la fête
the party
cuisiner
to cook
quelque chose
something

Questions & Answers about Je cuisine quelque chose pour la fête.

Why does the translation say 'am cooking' when the French just says Je cuisine?
French doesn't have a separate '-ing' tense for things happening right now. The present tense Je cuisine covers both 'I cook' as a general habit and 'I am cooking' at this very moment.
How would I use this lesson's grammar to say 'I never cook for the party'?
You would wrap the negative words ne and jamais (never) around the conjugated verb, cuisine. The sentence becomes: Je ne cuisine jamais pour la fête.
Is quelque chose always two words?
Yes! It literally translates to 'some thing' (quelque means 'some' and chose means 'thing'). Even though we write it as one word in English ('something'), it always stays as two separate words in French.
Can la fête mean something other than 'the party'?
Yes, une fête is a very flexible word. Depending on the context, it can mean a party, a festival, a celebration, or a holiday. For example, to say 'Happy holidays!', you would say Bonnes fêtes !

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