Learn French: Est-ce que tu vois le soleil et les nuages dans le ciel ? - Do you see the sun and the clouds in the sky?

Est-ce que tu vois le soleil et les nuages dans le ciel ?

Do you see the sun and the clouds in the sky?

Breakdown of Est-ce que tu vois le soleil et les nuages dans le ciel ?

you (informal singular)

is it that / do / does (question marker)

Questions & Answers about Est-ce que tu vois le soleil et les nuages dans le ciel ?

How do I conjugate the irregular verb voir like we see here in tu vois?

Voir (to see) is highly irregular. In the singular present tense, it goes: je vois (I see), tu vois (you see), and il/elle/on voit (he/she/it sees). Notice that the je and tu forms are exactly the same!

Could I ask this question by flipping the verb and subject, like Vois-tu le soleil?

Yes, you can use inversion (Vois-tu...), but it sounds quite formal. Adding Est-ce que to the start of a regular statement is the most standard, natural way to ask a yes/no question in everyday conversational French.

Is the word for cloud (nuage) masculine or feminine?

It is masculine (un nuage). Because it ends in an -e, it sometimes tricks learners into thinking it is feminine. Here it is plural, so we use les nuages. Le soleil (the sun) and le ciel (the sky) are also masculine.

Do I pronounce the final 's' in vois or nuages?

No, the 's' at the end of both vois and nuages is completely silent. In spoken French, you rely on the pronoun tu to know it is the 'you' form of the verb, and the article les to hear that there is more than one cloud.