Tu peux mettre tes baskets avec ce gilet, ou tes sandales si tu vas sur la terrasse.

Yes—mettre often means to put/place, but in everyday French it can also mean to put on / wear clothes or shoes.

So Tu peux mettre tes baskets... means You can wear your sneakers... or You can put on your sneakers...

French often uses mettre for the action of choosing and putting on clothing, while porter is more like to be wearing.

• mettre une veste = to put on / wear a jacket
• porter une veste = to wear a jacket

In many everyday contexts, both can work, but mettre is very common when talking about what someone should choose to wear.

Tu peux mettre literally means you can wear/put on, so it sounds like a suggestion or option.

• Tu peux mettre tes baskets... = You can wear your sneakers...
• Mets tes baskets... = Wear your sneakers... / Put on your sneakers...

So tu peux makes the sentence softer and less direct. It is giving advice, not an order.

No. In French, des baskets usually means sneakers / trainers.

It is a very common everyday word for casual sports shoes. So:

• tes baskets = your sneakers / your trainers

This is a vocabulary point learners often find confusing because it looks like the English word baskets, but it means shoes here.

Because the sentence is talking about your shoes specifically.

• tes = your (used with a singular owner, tu)
• des = some

So:

• tes baskets = your sneakers
• tes sandales = your sandals

French uses possessive adjectives very naturally when talking about clothes, body parts, personal items, etc.

Because tes agrees with the noun being possessed, not with the gender of the person.

French possessive adjectives change according to the thing owned:

• mon / ma / mes
• ton / ta / tes
• son / sa / ses

Since baskets and sandales are plural, French uses tes for both:

• tes baskets
• tes sandales

Plural possessives do not show masculine vs feminine, so tes works for both.

Because gilet is masculine singular and begins with a consonant sound.

French has:

• ce for masculine singular before a consonant
• cet for masculine singular before a vowel or mute h
• cette for feminine singular

So:

• ce gilet = correct
• cet ami = because ami starts with a vowel
• cette veste = feminine

Since gilet starts with g, you use ce.

Not always exactly. Gilet can refer to different sleeveless or light top garments depending on the variety of English and the context.

Possible translations include:

• cardigan
• vest
• sometimes waistcoat

In modern everyday French, gilet often means a cardigan or a light layer worn over other clothes. So the best English translation depends on the situation.

Because it tells you what the shoes go with:

• mettre tes baskets avec ce gilet = wear your sneakers with this cardigan/vest

French often puts this kind of phrase right after the item it modifies. It works very naturally in this order:

• verb + clothing item + avec
  • other clothing item

So the sentence is basically saying: You can wear your sneakers with this gilet...

French usually repeats the possessive adjective when there are two separate nouns.

So French prefers:

• tes baskets ou tes sandales

rather than leaving tes to apply to both from a distance.

This repetition sounds clearer and more natural in French. English can often say your sneakers or sandals, but French more often repeats the possessive.

Because after si meaning if, French normally uses the present tense, not the future tense, when talking about a real possibility.

So:

• si tu vas sur la terrasse = if you go onto/to the terrace

This is a very important French pattern:

• Si tu viens, je serai content. = If you come, I’ll be happy.

Not:

• Si tu viendras... ❌

French does not normally use the future after this kind of si.

Because sur means on / onto, and with a terrace, balcony, or similar surface-like space, French often uses sur.

So:

• aller sur la terrasse = to go onto / out onto the terrace

In English, we might simply say go to the terrace or go out onto the terrace, but French commonly uses sur here.

Because it is understood from the first part of the sentence.

The full idea is:

• You can wear your sneakers with this gilet, or your sandals if you’re going onto the terrace.

French often avoids repeating words when the meaning is already clear. So the sentence is really giving two options:

1. tes baskets avec ce gilet
2. tes sandales if the terrace condition applies

The repeated clothing match is implied by context.

No. They are different words.

• ou = or
• où = where

In this sentence, it is ou without an accent because it means or:

• tes baskets... ou tes sandales = your sneakers... or your sandals

This is a very common spelling distinction in French.

Yes. The French present tense can often cover both a simple present and a near-future or ongoing idea, depending on context.

So si tu vas sur la terrasse could be understood as:

• if you go onto the terrace
• if you’re going onto the terrace

French relies a lot on context for this. The sentence sounds natural either way.