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Vous pourriez signer ici, s'il vous plaît ?

Vous pourriez signer ici, s'il vous plaît ?
Could you sign here, please?
From Lesson 141:Polite requests (j'aimerais, tu pourrais...)·French

Questions & Answers about Vous pourriez signer ici, s'il vous plaît ?

Why is it pourriez instead of pouvez?
Pourriez is the conditional form of the verb pouvoir (can / to be able to), meaning "could". Just like in English, asking "Could you..." (Vous pourriez...) is a softer, more polite way to make a request than saying "Can you..." (Vous pouvez...).
Can I say Pourriez-vous signer instead of Vous pourriez signer?
Yes, you absolutely can! Pourriez-vous signer uses inversion, which is the traditional way to ask a question and sounds quite formal. In everyday spoken French, people often just use the normal statement word order (Vous pourriez signer) and raise their voice at the end to make it a question.
Why is the verb signer not conjugated?
When two verbs appear together in French, only the first one is conjugated. Because pourriez is already conjugated to match vous, the second verb (signer) must stay in its infinitive (dictionary) form.
Could I use s'il te plaît at the end of this sentence?
No, because you have to be consistent. The sentence starts with the formal or plural vous, so you must use the matching s'il vous plaît. If you were talking to a friend, you would change both parts to match the informal tu: Tu pourrais signer ici, s'il te plaît ?

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