Pourriez-vous me dire si la garantie inclut aussi l’adaptateur et la télécommande, madame?

Pourriez-vous is the conditional form of pouvoir and is often used to sound more polite or less direct.

• Pouvez-vous... ? = Can you... ?
• Pourriez-vous... ? = Could you... ?

In customer-service or formal situations, French often prefers Pourriez-vous... ? because it sounds courteous.

Me means to me.

So:

• dire = to say / to tell
• me dire = to tell me

French object pronouns like me, te, lui, nous usually come before the verb they belong to. Here, me goes before dire, even though dire is in the infinitive.

So Pourriez-vous me dire... literally means something like Could you tell me...

Yes, si often means if, but after verbs like demander, savoir, dire, etc., it is also used to introduce an indirect yes/no question.

Here:

• si la garantie inclut aussi... = whether the warranty also includes...

So in this sentence, si is best understood as whether, not a conditional if.

A useful pattern:

• Je voudrais savoir si... = I’d like to know whether...
• Pouvez-vous me dire si... = Can you tell me whether...

In French, nouns usually need an article much more often than in English.

So French says:

• la garantie = the warranty

Even where English might sometimes sound natural with just warranty in a general sense, French usually keeps the article. In this sentence, it refers to the specific warranty being discussed, so la garantie is the natural choice.

Inclut is the third-person singular present form of inclure.

The subject is la garantie, which is singular, so the verb must also be singular:

• la garantie inclut = the warranty includes

Conjugation:

• j’inclus
• tu inclus
• il/elle inclut
• nous incluons
• vous incluez
• ils/elles incluent

So inclut is correct because la garantie is treated as it.

Aussi means also / too / as well.

In this sentence, it means the speaker is asking whether the warranty includes those items in addition to something else already mentioned or assumed.

• inclut aussi l’adaptateur et la télécommande = also includes the adapter and the remote control

French adverbs like aussi can move around more than in English, but this position is very natural here.

French usually keeps the article before each noun unless the nouns share the same article naturally in a compact expression.

So:

• l’adaptateur et la télécommande

is more natural than trying to use one article for both.

Also, the nouns have different genders:

• l’adaptateur = masculine singular
• la télécommande = feminine singular

Because the genders are different, each noun needs its own article.

Because adaptateur begins with a vowel sound, le becomes l’.

This is called elision.

• le adaptateur → not correct
• l’adaptateur → correct

The same thing happens with many words:

• l’hôtel
• l’idée
• l’écran

Madame is a polite form of address, like ma’am.

In French, words like madame, monsieur, or someone’s title can be placed at the end of a sentence very naturally, especially in polite speech.

So:

• ..., madame ?

adds courtesy and directly addresses the woman being spoken to.

It can also appear elsewhere, but the final position is very common in real conversation.

Yes, it is fairly formal and very polite.

Clues:

• Pourriez-vous is more formal/polite than Pouvez-vous
• madame adds politeness
• the whole structure is careful and respectful

A less formal version might be:

• Vous pouvez me dire si la garantie inclut aussi l’adaptateur et la télécommande ?

And in very casual spoken French, people might say something even simpler, depending on context.

Yes, but the structure would be a bit different.

The current sentence uses:

• Pourriez-vous me dire si... = Could you tell me whether...

If you want a more direct question with est-ce que, you would ask:

• Est-ce que la garantie inclut aussi l’adaptateur et la télécommande ?

That means:

• Does the warranty also include the adapter and the remote control?

So both are correct, but they are built differently:

• Pouvez-vous / Pourriez-vous me dire si... = indirect question
• Est-ce que... ? = direct question

A more direct version could be:

• La garantie inclut aussi l’adaptateur et la télécommande ?

That is common in conversation, but less formal.

Other possibilities:

• Est-ce que la garantie inclut aussi l’adaptateur et la télécommande ?
• Vous pouvez me dire si la garantie inclut aussi l’adaptateur et la télécommande ?

So the original sentence is especially suitable in a shop, service desk, or professional interaction.

Yes, a few useful ones:

• Pourriez-vous: the r is the French r, and the -iez sounds like yay in many accents: roughly poo-ree-ay voo
• inclut: the final t is usually silent
• l’adaptateur: the l’ links directly to the next word
• télécommande: the accented é sounds like ay, not like the e in bed
• madame is pronounced roughly ma-dam, not like the English word madam

You do not need to pronounce every final consonant the way you might expect from spelling. French often leaves them silent.