Learn French: Invitez-vous le chanteur à l'émission aujourd'hui ? - Are you inviting the singer to the show today?

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

Are you inviting the singer to the show today?

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

vous

you (plural/formal)

at / to / in (general locations) / about (what one thinks about / reacts to)

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.