Questions & Answers about J'espère que tu as du succès.
Why does J'espère have a grave accent (è) when the infinitive verb is espérer (é)?
Espérer (to hope) is a stem-changing verb. In the present tense, the é in the stem changes to è for the subjects je, tu, il/elle/on, and ils/elles. This change makes the vowel easier to pronounce when the verb ending is silent. Since the -e ending in J'espère is silent, the accent changes! Can I leave out que like we leave out "that" in English?
No. In English, you can say "I hope you are successful" or "I hope that you are successful." In French, you must always include que to connect the two halves of the sentence. You can never drop it. The translation says "you are successful", but doesn't tu as mean "you have"?
Exactly! In French, you don't "be" successful, you "have" success. The phrase is avoir du succès (literally: to have some success). That is why the sentence uses tu as (you have) instead of tu es (you are). Why do we need du before succès?
Du means "some", and in French, you almost always need an article before a noun. Because succès is a masculine noun and we are talking about an uncountable amount of it (some success), we use the partitive article du (which is a combination of de + le). Does succès always end in an "s", even when it is singular?
Yes! The singular noun is un succès. Because it already ends in an s, its spelling doesn't change at all if you need to make it plural (des succès). Learn J'espère que tu as du succès and more in French
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