Word
Est-ce que tu vois les clients avec qui il s'entend ?
Meaning
Do you see the clients he gets along with?
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Est-ce que tu vois les clients avec qui il s'entend ?
tu
you (informal singular)
il
he
avec
with
qui
who
Questions & Answers about Est-ce que tu vois les clients avec qui il s'entend ?
Why does the French sentence use avec qui here?
In English, we often leave the preposition at the end of the sentence: "the clients he gets along with." French never does this! The preposition must go right before the relative pronoun. Since we are talking about people (les clients), we use the preposition avec followed by qui (meaning "with whom").
Wait, doesn't entendre mean "to hear"? Why does this translate as "gets along"?
Could I say avec lesquels instead of avec qui for "the clients"?
Yes, you could! les clients avec lesquels il s'entend is grammatically correct. However, when the relative pronoun refers to people, using a simple preposition + qui is much more common and sounds more natural in everyday spoken French.