Breakdown of Vous accueillez les invités dans le salon.
vous
you (plural/formal)
dans
in, inside
le salon
the living room
le
him, it (masculine direct object pronoun)
Questions & Answers about Vous accueillez les invités dans le salon.
The infinitive here is accueillir. Why does it take the ending -ez for the vous form instead of -issez like choisir?
Accueillir (to welcome) belongs to a special group of irregular -ir verbs, just like ouvrir (to open) and offrir (to offer). Instead of using standard -ir endings, they use the endings from regular -er verbs. You drop the -ir and add -ez to get accueillez.
Why is the spelling -cuei- in accueillez instead of the more common -ceu-?
It is a spelling trick to keep the c sounding hard, like a K. If you wrote acceuillez, the c followed by an e would sound soft, like an S. Using -cue- keeps the hard K sound intact.
Does the word invités literally mean 'invited people'?
I have seen 'au' used for 'in the' before. Why do we use 'dans le' for the living room?