Breakdown of Je mets mon sac sur la chaise et j'écris.
Questions & Answers about Je mets mon sac sur la chaise et j'écris.
Why does mets end in an -s? Isn't mettre an -re verb?
Mettre (to put) is an irregular verb. To conjugate it for singular pronouns, you drop the entire -tre ending to leave the base met-, then add -s, -s, or nothing. This gives us je mets, tu mets, and il/elle met. Why is there an apostrophe in j'écris but not in je mets?
Écrire starts with a vowel, so the e in je is dropped and replaced with an apostrophe to make the pronunciation smoother. This is a mandatory rule called elision. Because mets starts with a consonant, je stays as a separate word. Is écris conjugated like regular -re verbs?
No, écrire (to write) is also irregular! For singular pronouns, it looks fairly normal: you drop the -re to get the base écri- and add -s, -s, -t (j'écris, tu écris, il/elle écrit). But for plural pronouns, a -v- appears before the endings: nous écrivons, vous écrivez, ils/elles écrivent. Would a female speaker still say mon sac instead of ma sac?
Yes! In French, possessive words like mon (my) match the gender of the object being owned, not the person speaking. Since sac (bag) is a masculine noun, it is always mon sac, no matter who is speaking. Learn Je mets mon sac sur la chaise et j'écris and more in French
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