Je vois sept photos.

Because voir is the infinitive form, meaning to see. In a normal sentence, French usually uses a conjugated verb.

• voir = to see
• je vois = I see

Here, vois is the first-person singular present-tense form of voir.

A few present-tense forms of voir are:

• je vois = I see
• tu vois = you see
• il/elle/on voit = he/she/one sees
• nous voyons = we see
• vous voyez = you see
• ils/elles voient = they see

vois is pronounced roughly like vwah.

A few helpful notes:

• The v is like English v
• oi in modern French usually sounds like wah
• The final s in vois is silent

So:

• je vois ≈ zhuh vwah

The j in je sounds like the s in measure.

French shortens je to j’ only before a vowel sound or a silent h.

For example:

• j’aime = I like
• j’habite = I live

But vois starts with a pronounced consonant sound (v), so you keep je:

• je vois

Not:

• j’vois in standard written French

You may hear j’vois in very informal spoken French because people reduce sounds in fast speech, but the normal written form is je vois.

Because numbers in French usually come directly before the noun without an article.

So French says:

• sept photos = seven photos

Not:

• les sept photos unless you specifically mean the seven photos
• des sept photos in this sentence

This is similar to English, where we say seven photos, not the seven photos unless we mean specific ones.

So:

• Je vois sept photos. = I see seven photos.
• Je vois les sept photos. = I see the seven photos.
  This sounds more specific: a particular set of seven photos.

Because sept means seven, and French nouns normally become plural after numbers greater than one.

So:

• une photo = one photo
• sept photos = seven photos

The plural is shown by adding -s to the noun:

• photo → photos

In pronunciation, that final s is usually silent, so photo and photos sound the same by themselves.

Yes. Photo is a very common shortened form of photographie.

So:

• une photographie = a photograph
• une photo = a photo / photograph

In everyday French, photo is extremely common and natural.

Sept is the French word for seven.

In this sentence, it is usually pronounced set.

A useful detail: French number pronunciations can change slightly depending on what follows.

Before a consonant, sept is often pronounced:

• set

Before a vowel, speakers may pronounce the final t more clearly and link it:

• sept amis can sound like set-ami

In sept photos, the next word starts with ph pronounced f, so you normally hear set photo.

Photo is feminine:

• une photo
• la photo

It does matter in French generally, but in this sentence you do not see an article or adjective that changes form, so the feminine gender is not very visible.

You would notice it more in examples like:

• une photo
• la photo
• cette photo
• de belles photos

Because this sentence follows a very common basic French pattern:

• subject + verb + number + noun

So:

• Je = subject
• vois = verb
• sept photos = direct object

French often matches English word order in simple sentences like this:

• Je lis un livre. = I am reading a book.
• Nous avons deux chiens. = We have two dogs.

That said, French word order can differ from English in other situations, especially with object pronouns, questions, and adjectives.

No. The final s in photos is normally silent.

So:

• photo
• photos

are usually pronounced the same at the end.

However, if a following word begins with a vowel, French may make a liaison in some contexts, but after a noun like photos, liaison is not something you usually need to force here.

For this sentence, just pronounce:

• sept photos ≈ set fo-to

Yes, but it means something a little different.

• Je vois sept photos = I see seven photos
  This focuses on what is visible to you.
• Je regarde sept photos = I am looking at seven photos
  This emphasizes the action of looking at them.

So both can be correct depending on the situation, but voir and regarder are not identical.

Yes, very often in natural English translation, je vois can correspond to I see or I can see, depending on context.

French does not always use a separate verb for can in cases of basic perception.

So:

• Je vois la montagne. can mean I see the mountain or I can see the mountain

In your sentence, Je vois sept photos could naturally be understood as I see seven photos or I can see seven photos, depending on the context.

Yes: ph in French is pronounced like f, just as in many English words of Greek origin.

So:

• photo sounds roughly like fo-to

Not like an English p-h sequence pronounced separately.

You usually put ne ... pas around the conjugated verb:

• Je ne vois pas sept photos.

In modern spoken French, people often drop ne, so you may hear:

• Je vois pas sept photos.

But in standard written French, use:

• Je ne vois pas sept photos.

There are several common ways:

1. Est-ce que je vois sept photos ?
   Very common and clear.

2. Je vois sept photos ?
   Rising intonation in speech; common in conversation.

3. Vois-je sept photos ?
   Formal and less common in everyday speech.

For most learners, Est-ce que je vois sept photos ? is the safest standard option.