Tous les soirs, je bois une tisane.

French often expresses repeated time with the pattern tous les + plural noun.

So:

• tous les soirs = every evening
• tous les jours = every day
• toutes les semaines = every week

It is a very common structure, and it is one of the main ways to say that something happens regularly.

Because soirs is masculine plural.

The word tout changes form depending on gender and number:

• tout = masculine singular
• toute = feminine singular
• tous = masculine plural
• toutes = feminine plural

Since soirs is plural and masculine, you need tous:

• tous les soirs
• tous les jours

But:

• toutes les semaines
• toutes les nuits

Because the idea is every evening in general, not one specific evening.

French usually uses a plural noun after tous les when talking about habitual repetition:

• tous les soirs = every evening
• tous les matins = every morning
• tous les ans = every year

Using the plural is normal in this structure.

The comma is used because Tous les soirs is a time expression placed at the beginning of the sentence.

So the sentence is organized like this:

• Tous les soirs, = time phrase
• je bois une tisane = main statement

The comma helps readability, especially in writing. In casual writing, some people may leave it out, but using it is completely normal and often preferred.

Yes, bois here is the verb form of boire = to drink.

With je, the verb becomes:

• je bois = I drink

This bois is written the same way as the noun bois meaning wood, but the meaning comes from context.

Also, je bois is pronounced the same as boit in il boit in modern French pronunciation.

Both can work, but they are not exactly the same.

• boire means to drink
• prendre literally means to take, but in French it is also often used for food and drink

So:

• je bois une tisane = I drink an herbal tea
• je prends une tisane = I have an herbal tea / I take an herbal tea

Boire focuses more directly on the act of drinking.
Prendre can sound a bit broader, like choosing or having it.

In this sentence, je bois une tisane is simple and very natural.

Because une tisane refers to one herbal tea / one cup of herbal tea as a countable item.

French often uses the indefinite article for a single serving:

• un café
• un thé
• une tisane

But de la tisane would mean some herbal tea or herbal tea as an uncountable substance.

Compare:

• Je bois une tisane. = I drink an herbal tea / a cup of herbal tea.
• Je bois de la tisane. = I drink herbal tea.

So both are grammatical, but the meaning is slightly different.

Not exactly. Tisane usually means herbal tea or infusion, not regular tea made from tea leaves.

So:

• thé = tea
• tisane = herbal tea

For example, chamomile or mint tea would often be called une tisane in French.

Yes. Chaque soir also means every evening.

Compare:

• Tous les soirs, je bois une tisane.
• Chaque soir, je bois une tisane.

Both are correct and natural.

A small difference in feel:

• tous les soirs emphasizes the repeated pattern across all evenings
• chaque soir emphasizes each individual evening one by one

In many everyday situations, the difference is very small.

Yes, you can absolutely say:

• Je bois une tisane tous les soirs.

That is also correct and natural.

The difference is mainly emphasis:

• Tous les soirs, je bois une tisane. puts the routine first
• Je bois une tisane tous les soirs. starts with the action and adds the time information afterward

Both are common.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

too lay swar, zhuh bwahz ewn tee-zahn

A few helpful notes:

• Tous sounds like too
• les sounds like lay
• soirs sounds roughly like swar
• je sounds like the s in measure
• bois sounds like bwah
• une has a French vowel that does not exist exactly in English, but ewn is a useful approximation
• tisane sounds like tee-zahn

In natural speech, je often becomes very light, almost like zh before bois.

Yes. French uses the present tense for habits and routines, just like English often does.

So je bois can mean:

• I drink
• I am drinking, depending on context

But with Tous les soirs, it clearly means a habitual action:

• Every evening, I drink an herbal tea.

This is a very common use of the present tense in French.