Breakdown of Je te raconte l'intrigue dont tu as envie.
je
I
tu
you (informal singular)
te
you, yourself (object pronoun)
raconter
to tell / to recount
Questions & Answers about Je te raconte l'intrigue dont tu as envie.
Why use dont instead of que for 'that' in this sentence?
In English, we say 'the plot that you want'. But in French, the phrase used here for 'to want' is avoir envie de (literally, 'to have a desire of'). Because this expression requires the preposition de, we must use the relative pronoun dont to connect it back to l'intrigue. You can never use que to replace an object introduced by de.
Couldn't we just use vouloir for 'to want'?
Why is te placed before the verb raconte?
In French, object pronouns like te (to you) generally go right before the conjugated verb they belong to. The verb is raconter quelque chose à quelqu'un (to tell something to someone), making te an indirect object pronoun representing who is being told the plot.