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Tu fais des progrès en français.

Tu fais des progrès en français.
You are making progress in French.
From Lesson 38:The verb to do/make (faire)·French

Breakdown of Tu fais des progrès en français.

français
French
en
in, to
faire des progrès
to make progress

Questions & Answers about Tu fais des progrès en français.

Why does the sentence use des progrès instead of just progrès?
In English, progress is an uncountable idea, so we just say making progress. In French, un progrès is a countable noun, meaning a step forward. To talk about making progress generally, French uses the plural des progrès (literally some progresses).
Why is the verb conjugated as fais?
The verb faire (to do or to make) is highly irregular. It does not follow the normal ending rules you might have learned, so you simply have to memorize that the tu (you) form is tu fais.
The English translation says you are making, but where is the word for are in the French sentence?
French does not have a separate am/is/are doing form. The single present tense verb fais translates to both you make and you are making depending on what sounds best in English.
Why do we use en before français instead of something like dans?
When you want to say that something is happening in a specific language, you use the preposition en followed directly by the name of the language. You do not need a word for the (le), so it is just en français.

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