Question 1

Why does n'est-ce pas mean "aren't you?" here?

Accepted Answer

Literally, n'est-ce pas means "is it not?". However, the French use it as an easy, catch-all phrase at the end of a sentence to ask for agreement, similar to "right?". While English makes you change the tag to match the sentence ("do you?", "aren't we?", "hasn't she?"), French lets you just stick n'est-ce pas on the end of almost any statement!

Question 2

Why is the translation "You are coming" instead of "You come"?

Accepted Answer

French only has one present tense, while English has two. The single French phrase tu viens translates to both "you come" (a general habit) and "you are coming" (happening right now or very soon). Context tells you which one makes sense!

Question 3

Why do we use nous after avec?

Accepted Answer

Words like avec (with) and pour (for) are prepositions. When you put a pronoun after them in French, you use a form called a stressed pronoun. Luckily for "us", the stressed pronoun is nous—exactly the same as the regular subject pronoun! (This is unlike "me" and "you", which change to moi and toi).

Question 4

What is the dictionary form of the verb viens?

Accepted Answer

It comes from the verb venir (to come). This is a very common irregular verb, meaning it doesn't follow the standard spelling rules for verbs that end in -ir. For the informal "you" (tu), the correct form is tu viens.

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