Word
Vous offrez souvent des cadeaux.
Meaning
You often give gifts.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Vous offrez souvent des cadeaux.
vous
you (plural/formal)
des
some (plural indefinite)
souvent
often
le cadeau
the gift
Questions & Answers about Vous offrez souvent des cadeaux.
Wait, offrir is an "-ir" verb. Shouldn't it be conjugated like finir or choisir?
Offrir (to offer/give) is an irregular verb. The trick to this verb is that it takes the exact same endings as regular "-er" verbs in the present tense (-e, -es, -e, -ons, -ez, -ent). That is why it becomes vous offrez here, rather than taking an "-issez" ending.
Why is offrez translated as "give" here instead of "offer"?
In English we say "often give", so why is the order flipped to offrez souvent?
In French, you generally cannot separate the subject pronoun (vous) from its verb (offrez). Adverbs that tell you how often something happens, like souvent (often), are placed directly after the conjugated verb.