Voudriez-vous me montrer ce modèle d’imperméable dans un tissu plus léger ?

Voudriez-vous is more polite and less direct than voulez-vous.

• voulez-vous = do you want / will you
• voudriez-vous = would you

In a shop, French often uses the conditional for polite requests, just like English uses would instead of will.

So:

• Voudriez-vous me montrer… ? = Would you show me… ?
• Voulez-vous me montrer… ? sounds more direct, though still possible in some contexts.

It comes from the verb vouloir (to want), in the conditional present, with inversion:

• je voudrais
• tu voudrais
• il/elle voudrait
• nous voudrions
• vous voudriez
• ils/elles voudraient

Then French inverts the subject pronoun for a question:

• vous voudriez → voudriez-vous ?

So voudriez-vous literally means would you want, but in natural English it functions as would you.

The hyphen appears because French uses inversion to form many formal questions:

• Vous voudriez → statement
• Voudriez-vous ? → question

When the verb and subject pronoun switch places, they are joined by a hyphen:

• Avez-vous
• Parlez-vous
• Voudriez-vous

This is standard written French and fairly formal/polite spoken French.

In French, object pronouns like me, te, le, la, nous, vous, leur usually come before the infinitive when that infinitive depends on another verb.

Here:

• voudriez-vous = would you
• montrer = show
• me = to me

So French says:

• voudriez-vous me montrer
  literally: would you to-me show

Not:

• voudriez-vous montrer me ❌

This is very common:

• Je vais vous appeler. = I’m going to call you.
• Peux-tu me aider ? ❌
• Peux-tu m’aider ? ✅

Here me means to me, even though French just uses me.

With verbs like montrer (to show), English often says show me, and French also says me montrer.

So:

• montrer quelque chose à quelqu’un = to show something to someone
• me montrer = show me / show to me

French uses the pronoun me instead of repeating à moi.

It means this model/style of raincoat.

Breakdown:

• ce = this
• modèle = model, style, design
• imperméable = raincoat
• modèle d’imperméable = model of raincoat / raincoat style

So ce modèle d’imperméable refers to a particular type or design of raincoat, not just any raincoat.

In shop language, modèle often means style or version.

Because this is a noun complement: modèle de + noun.

• un modèle de voiture = a car model
• un modèle de robe = a dress design
• un modèle d’imperméable = a raincoat model/style

The de here does not mean some or of the in the usual sense. It links two nouns, so French normally uses just de, which becomes d’ before a vowel sound:

• de + imperméable → d’imperméable

Using de l’imperméable here would sound wrong.

Yes — imperméable can be both:

• an adjective: un tissu imperméable = a waterproof fabric
• a noun: un imperméable = a raincoat

In this sentence, it is clearly a noun, meaning raincoat.

So:

• ce modèle d’imperméable = this raincoat style/model

Here dans means something like in or made in a certain material.

So:

• dans un tissu plus léger = in a lighter fabric

This is natural in French when talking about clothing being made in a certain material or version:

• Je le voudrais dans une autre couleur. = I’d like it in another color.
• Avez-vous cette robe dans un tissu plus fin ? = Do you have this dress in a finer fabric?

So dans here refers to the version/material of the item.

Because léger agrees with tissu, not with imperméable.

• tissu is masculine singular
• so the adjective is léger

That gives:

• un tissu plus léger

If the noun were feminine, it would change:

• une matière plus légère

So the adjective agrees with the noun it directly describes.

You might be understood, but dans un tissu plus léger is more natural here.

• dans un tissu plus léger suggests a different version of the same item, made in a lighter fabric
• avec un tissu plus léger sounds more like with a lighter fabric, which is less idiomatic in this shopping context

In clothing-shop French, dans is very common for variants:

• dans cette couleur
• dans une taille plus grande
• dans un tissu plus léger

It is polite and fairly formal, which fits speaking to a shop assistant.

The main signals are:

• vous instead of tu
• voudriez-vous instead of a more direct form
• inversion question form (voudriez-vous)

A less formal version might be:

• Vous pourriez me montrer ce modèle d’imperméable dans un tissu plus léger ?
• Est-ce que vous pourriez me montrer… ?

Those are also polite and very common in everyday spoken French.

Yes, it is natural and polite.

That said, native speakers might also say:

• Vous auriez ce modèle d’imperméable dans un tissu plus léger ?
• Est-ce que vous pourriez me montrer ce modèle dans un tissu plus léger ?
• Je voudrais voir ce modèle d’imperméable dans un tissu plus léger.

All of these work. The original sentence is a very good, courteous customer-style request.

A rough literal breakdown is:

• Voudriez-vous = Would you
• me montrer = show me
• ce modèle d’imperméable = this model/style of raincoat
• dans un tissu plus léger = in a lighter fabric

So the structure is:

Would you show me this raincoat model in a lighter fabric?

That helps explain why the sentence may feel slightly different from English, even though the meaning is straightforward.

The e in de disappears before a vowel, so de imperméable becomes d’imperméable.

You pronounce it as one smooth group, roughly:

• dim-per-mé-a-ble

The apostrophe shows elision, which is very common in French:

• de + ami → d’ami
• je + aime → j’aime
• me + appeler → m’appeler

So d’imperméable is just the normal contracted form.

Yes — this sentence is a great example of a very useful pattern:

Voudriez-vous me + infinitive + object/complement ?

For example:

• Voudriez-vous me montrer cette veste ?
• Voudriez-vous me donner une autre taille ?
• Voudriez-vous me faire voir quelque chose de plus léger ?

If you learn this pattern, you can use it in many shop, hotel, and service situations.