Word
Le suspect que vous interrogez a un alibi.
Meaning
The suspect you are interrogating has an alibi.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Le suspect que vous interrogez a un alibi.
vous
you (plural/formal)
avoir
to have
que
that (introducing a clause)
le suspect
the suspect
Questions & Answers about Le suspect que vous interrogez a un alibi.
Can I leave out the word que, since we often say "The suspect you are interrogating" without "that" or "whom" in English?
No, you can never drop the relative pronoun in French. Even though English lets us skip words like "that" or "whom" in the middle of a sentence, French requires que to connect the noun (le suspect) to the action describing it (vous interrogez).
Why is it just vous interrogez instead of a literal translation for "you are interrogating"?
French doesn't have an exact equivalent for the English "to be doing something" tense (the present continuous). The standard present tense vous interrogez covers both "you interrogate" and "you are interrogating".
What is the main verb of this sentence?