Learn French: Je voudrais voir une bonne passe. - I would like to see a good pass.

Je voudrais voir une bonne passe.

I would like to see a good pass.

Breakdown of Je voudrais voir une bonne passe.

Questions & Answers about Je voudrais voir une bonne passe.

Since this lesson is about adding -ment to feminine adjectives to make adverbs, is the adverb form of bonne actually bonnement?

Actually, no! While most feminine adjectives take -ment to become adverbs (like lente becoming lentement), bonne is a major exception. The adverb for 'well' is the irregular word bien.

Why does bonne come before passe instead of after it?

In French, most adjectives come after the noun. However, short and common adjectives that describe Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness, or Size (often remembered by the acronym BANGS) come before the noun. bonne falls under 'Goodness', so it goes right before passe.

Why use voudrais instead of veux here?

voudrais translates to 'would like', which is a softer and more polite way to express a desire than veux ('want'). This uses the conditional tense of the verb vouloir, and it is the standard way to make polite requests in French.

Why is voir not conjugated?

When two verbs are used back-to-back in French, the second verb stays in its infinitive (dictionary) form. Since voudrais is already conjugated to match Je, voir remains unconjugated.