Learn French: Quels vêtements est-ce que tu veux essayer ?

Quels vêtements est-ce que tu veux essayer ?

Which clothes do you want to try on?

Breakdown of Quels vêtements est-ce que tu veux essayer ?

you (informal singular)

est-ce que

is it that / do / does (question marker)

quel

which / what (adjective)

vouloir

to want

Questions & Answers about Quels vêtements est-ce que tu veux essayer ?

Why is it quels with an "s" at the end instead of just quel?

Because quel is an interrogative adjective (a word meaning "which" or "what" used to ask a question), it must match the gender and number of the noun it describes. Since vêtements (clothes) is masculine and plural, we use the masculine plural form quels.

How do you say "on" in "to try on"?

You don't need a separate word for "on"! In French, the single verb essayer covers both "to try" (like trying to do a task) and "to try on" (like trying on clothes).

Why doesn't the verb essayer change to match tu?

When you have two verbs back-to-back to express a single idea, only the first one is conjugated (changed to match the subject). Here, the verb vouloir (to want) becomes tu veux. The second verb always stays in its basic, unchanged dictionary form (the infinitive), which is essayer here.

Is est-ce que required here, or could I ask this another way?

Est-ce que is a very standard and common way to form a question, but you have other options. You could use the more formal inversion (Quels vêtements veux-tu essayer ?) or the more casual everyday spoken structure (Tu veux essayer quels vêtements ?).