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Vous pouvez même faire la réparation vous-même.

Vous pouvez même faire la réparation vous-même.
You can even do the repair yourself.
From Lesson 346:Adverbial even and self pronouns (même / -même)·French

Questions & Answers about Vous pouvez même faire la réparation vous-même.

Why is the first même placed right after pouvez instead of before it?
When même is used as an adverb meaning 'even', it normally follows the conjugated verb. Here, it sits immediately after the helper verb pouvez. This is similar to English, where 'even' often follows auxiliary verbs (like 'can').
Why is the second one spelled vous-même and not vous-mêmes?
The spelling tells us exactly who is being addressed! Because it is written as vous-même without an s, we know the speaker is talking to a single person using the formal vous. If they were speaking to a plural group of people, it would be spelled vous-mêmes.
Is the final vous-même strictly necessary for the sentence to make sense?
No, you could just say Vous pouvez même faire la réparation (You can even do the repair). Adding vous-même at the end acts as an emphatic pronoun. It adds the specific nuance that you can do it yourself instead of paying someone else to do it.
Could I use the verb réparer instead of the phrase faire la réparation?
Absolutely. Vous pouvez même le réparer vous-même is perfectly correct and means 'You can even fix it yourself'. Using the noun phrase faire la réparation just puts a slight focus on the repair as a specific task or project.

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