Learn Hardcore French: Mets ton clignotant avant le virage, surtout quand il faut freiner près de l’école. - Use your turn signal before the turn, especially when you need to brake near the school.

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Mets ton clignotant avant le virage, surtout quand il faut freiner près de l’école.

Meaning

Use your turn signal before the turn, especially when you need to brake near the school.

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Breakdown of Mets ton clignotant avant le virage, surtout quand il faut freiner près de l’école.

Why is it Mets and not Tu mets?

Mets is the tu imperative form of mettre.

In French, when you give a command to someone directly, you usually drop the subject pronoun:

So mets here is a command addressed to one person informally.

Why does mets keep the -s in the imperative?

Because mettre is not an -er verb.

In the tu imperative, many -er verbs lose the final -s:

But verbs like mettre, prendre, sortir, etc. usually keep it:

So Mets is the correct imperative form.

What exactly does mettre son clignotant mean? Is that a normal French expression?