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Où est-ce que tu jettes le plastique ?

Où est-ce que tu jettes le plastique ?
Where do you throw away the plastic?
From Lesson 84:Double consonant verbs (appeler, jeter)·French

Questions & Answers about Où est-ce que tu jettes le plastique ?

Why is jettes spelled with two T's here?
The verb jeter (to throw) is a stem-changing verb. For the je, tu, il/elle/on, and ils/elles forms, the single t doubles to tt. This changes the sound of the first e to rhyme with the English word set. So, tu jettes gets a double T, but forms like nous jetons keep just one T!
Why do we use est-ce que here instead of just saying Où tu jettes?
You can form questions a few ways in French. Où est-ce que tu jettes... is the standard, most common way to ask this in everyday spoken French. You could also use inversion (Où jettes-tu...), which is more formal, or simple intonation (Tu jettes le plastique où ?), which is very casual. Adding est-ce que after a question word like où is a perfectly standard and balanced way to ask a question.
Do I pronounce the s at the end of jettes?
No, the -s at the end of tu jettes is completely silent. You just pronounce the word like the English word jet. In the present tense, the tu form of -er verbs (and stem-changers like this one) almost always ends in a silent s.
Why does plastique have le in front of it?
In French, you usually need an article (like le, la, or les) before a noun, even when referring to a general concept or a mass material. While in English we just say plastic in general, in French you must say le plastique.

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