Learn French: Regardez-vous une interview récente ? - Are you watching a recent interview?

Regardez-vous une interview récente ?

Are you watching a recent interview?

Breakdown of Regardez-vous une interview récente ?

the interview (journalistic) (f)

Questions & Answers about Regardez-vous une interview récente ?

Why is the verb first in Regardez-vous?

This is called subject-verb inversion. It is a more formal way to ask a question in French. Instead of saying Vous regardez (You watch), you swap the verb and the subject pronoun to make it a question.

Do I always need the hyphen in Regardez-vous?

Yes! Whenever you invert a verb and a subject pronoun to ask a question in French, you must connect them with a hyphen.

Interview is an English word. How do we know it uses une?

Even words borrowed from other languages get assigned a gender in French! Interview is feminine, which is why it uses une. Because it is feminine, the adjective describing it also needs to agree and be feminine, which is why we add an -e to make it récente.

Why does récente come after the noun it describes?

In French, most adjectives are placed after the noun. There is a small group of short, common adjectives (usually describing beauty, age, goodness, or size) that go before the noun. However, récente is not one of these exceptions, so it follows the standard rule and goes after.

Why does the translation say 'Are you watching' instead of 'Do you watch'?