Je peux t’accompagner à condition que tu sois prête avant midi.

Because te becomes t’ before a vowel sound.

• te = you (direct object pronoun)
• accompagner begins with a vowel, so French uses elision
• So te accompagner becomes t’accompagner

This is very common in French:

• je t’aime
• il m’écoute
• s’il t’appelle

Here, t’accompagner means to accompany you.

Accompagner usually means to accompany, to go with, or sometimes to take/escort someone somewhere, depending on context.

In this sentence, it suggests something like:

• I can go with you
• I can accompany you
• I can come with you

So it is not about musical accompaniment here; it is about physically going with someone.

Both come from the verb pouvoir (to be able to / can), but je peux is the normal modern form in everyday French.

• je peux = standard, common
• je puis = more formal, literary, or used in inversion such as puis-je...?

So in normal speech and writing, je peux is exactly what you would expect.

À condition que means provided that, as long as, or on condition that.

It introduces a condition that must be met.

Structure:

• à condition que + subjunctive

So in this sentence, the speaker is saying they can accompany the person, but only if that person is ready before noon.

Examples:

• Je viens à condition que tu m’attendes.
• On sort à condition qu’il ne pleuve pas.

It is a fixed expression, so it is best learned as a whole chunk.

Because à condition que requires the subjunctive mood.

The verb être in the subjunctive is:

• que je sois
• que tu sois
• qu’il soit
• que nous soyons
• que vous soyez
• qu’ils soient

So after à condition que, you say:

• à condition que tu sois prête

not

• à condition que tu es prête

A good rule: when you see expressions like à condition que, il faut que, bien que, pour que, the verb that follows is often in the subjunctive.

Because prête agrees with the person being described, and here that person is feminine.

• tu sois prêt = if the person spoken to is male
• tu sois prête = if the person spoken to is female

French adjectives usually agree in gender and number with the noun or pronoun they describe.

So this sentence is being said to a woman or girl.

You would say:

Je peux t’accompagner à condition que tu sois prêt avant midi.

The only change is:

• prête → prêt

Everything else stays the same.

Tu is the informal singular you.

This suggests the speaker is talking to:

• a friend
• a family member
• a child
• someone they know well

If the speaker wanted to be formal, or if they were speaking to more than one person, they would use vous.

Formal singular version:

Je peux vous accompagner à condition que vous soyez prête/prêt avant midi.

Plural version:

Je peux vous accompagner à condition que vous soyez prêts/prêtes avant midi.

In French, expressions of time like avant midi are used without an article in this sense.

• midi = noon
• avant midi = before noon

This is the natural idiomatic expression.

Similarly:

• après midi is not used the same way for in the afternoon; instead French says l’après-midi
• but avant midi is a fixed time phrase meaning before noon

A natural pronunciation would be roughly:

Zhuh puh tah-kohm-pah-nyay ah kohn-dee-syohn kuh too swah pret ah-vahn mee-dee

A few useful points:

• Je often sounds like zhuh
• peux sounds like puh
• t’accompagner links smoothly because of the t’
• que tu sois is often said very fluidly
• prête ends sharply; the final e is not pronounced

If you want a more French-looking sound guide:

Je peux t’accompagner à condition que tu sois prête avant midi
≈ juh pø takɔ̃paɲe a kɔ̃disjɔ̃ kə ty swɑ pʁɛt avɑ̃ midi

Not exactly. The à in this sentence does not belong to accompagner. It begins the expression à condition que.

So the structure is:

• Je peux t’accompagner = I can accompany you
• à condition que... = provided that...

This is important, because a learner might wrongly think accompagner à condition is some kind of verb phrase. It is not.

Yes, but it is not exactly the same.

• si tu es prête avant midi = if you are ready before noon
• à condition que tu sois prête avant midi = provided that you are ready before noon

The version with à condition que sounds more explicit and conditional, almost like setting a requirement.

Also notice the grammar difference:

• after si → usually indicative: si tu es
• after à condition que → subjunctive: que tu sois

It breaks down like this:

• Je peux = I can
• t’accompagner = accompany you / go with you
• à condition que = provided that
• tu sois prête = you are ready / you be ready
• avant midi = before noon

So the pattern is:

subject + pouvoir + object pronoun + infinitive + conditional expression + subjunctive clause

More simply:

I can + accompany you + provided that + you’re ready before noon

Yes. French can move the condition to the front:

À condition que tu sois prête avant midi, je peux t’accompagner.

This means the same thing, though it may sound a bit more formal or deliberate.

In everyday speech, the original order is very natural:

Je peux t’accompagner à condition que tu sois prête avant midi.