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Invitez-vous le chanteur à l'émission aujourd'hui ?

Invitez-vous le chanteur à l'émission aujourd'hui ?
Are you inviting the singer to the show today?
From Lesson 143:Formal questions (parlez-vous, a-t-il)·French

Questions & Answers about Invitez-vous le chanteur à l'émission aujourd'hui ?

Why is it Invitez-vous with a hyphen instead of Vous invitez?
This is called subject-verb inversion. To make a question sound more formal or polite in French, you flip the verb (invitez) and the subject pronoun (vous), and connect them with a hyphen.
Why do we say à l'émission rather than sur l'émission? In English we usually say someone is invited 'on' a show.
Prepositions rarely translate word-for-word! In French, you treat a broadcast or program like an event you go to, so you use the preposition à (to) rather than sur (on).
If Invitez-vous is formal, how would I ask this same question in a casual conversation?
In everyday spoken French, people usually avoid inversion. You could simply keep the normal sentence order and raise your voice at the end: Vous invitez le chanteur à l'émission aujourd'hui ? You could also put Est-ce que at the very beginning.
Because it uses l', how can I remember if émission is masculine or feminine?
Almost all French words ending in -sion or -tion are feminine, so it is une émission. It only takes l' here instead of la because it starts with a vowel, which makes it easier to pronounce.

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