Breakdown of Je suis curieux de savoir comment ils organisent les tâches de ménage.
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Questions & Answers about Je suis curieux de savoir comment ils organisent les tâches de ménage.
Why is it je suis curieux de savoir and not just je suis curieux comment like in English?
French does not use curieux directly before comment the way English often uses curious how.
To express I’m curious how…, French usually uses:
So the structure is:
- être curieux / curieuse de + infinitif
→ Je suis curieux de savoir… (I’m curious to know…)
→ Je suis curieuse de comprendre… (I’m eager/curious to understand…)
Saying je suis curieux comment ils organisent… would sound wrong or at least very unnatural in standard French. The infinitive savoir is needed to make the structure natural and grammatical.
Does curieux change if the speaker is a woman?