Je te montre la recette étape par étape pour que tu puisses la refaire demain.

Because te is the unstressed object pronoun, and French normally uses that form before the verb.

• Je te montre... = I show you...
• toi is the stressed form, used for emphasis or after prepositions:
  • C’est pour toi
  • Toi, tu comprends vite

In this sentence, te means to you. With montrer, French often works like:

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

So te stands for à toi.

Montre is the je form of the verb montrer in the present tense.

The verb is:

• je montre
• tu montres
• il/elle montre
• nous montrons
• vous montrez
• ils/elles montrent

So Je te montre simply means I am showing you or I show you, depending on context. French present tense often covers both simple present and present progressive ideas from English.

French uses articles much more often than English does. Where English might say I’m showing you the recipe or sometimes just I’m showing you a recipe, French usually needs an article.

Here la recette means the recipe. It likely refers to a specific recipe already known in the conversation.

So:

• la recette = the recipe
• une recette = a recipe

French generally does not say just Je te montre recette. An article is needed.

Étape par étape means step by step.

It is a fixed expression:

• étape = step
• par = by / per

Literally, it is something like step by step. French often uses this structure without articles in set adverbial expressions.

So:

• Je te montre la recette étape par étape = I’m showing you the recipe step by step

It functions like an adverbial phrase describing how the speaker is showing the recipe.

Because pour que introduces a clause with its own subject and verb.

Here we have:

• Je te montre... = first clause
• tu puisses... = second clause, with its own subject tu

So French uses:

• pour que + subject + verb

This means so that.

In contrast, pour + infinitive is used when there is no new subject, or when the subject stays the same:

• Je viens pour aider = I’m coming to help
• same subject implied

But here the subject changes from je to tu, so French needs:

• pour que tu puisses... = so that you can...

Because pour que requires the subjunctive.

The verb here is pouvoir. After pour que, French uses the subjunctive form:

• que je puisse
• que tu puisses
• qu’il puisse
• que nous puissions
• que vous puissiez
• qu’ils puissent

So:

• pour que tu puisses = so that you can
• pour que tu peux is incorrect

This is one of the most important patterns to learn:

• pour que + subjunctive

The subjunctive is used because the sentence expresses purpose or intended result.

The speaker is showing the recipe in order for the other person to be able to make it again tomorrow.

So the idea is not just a plain statement of fact. It is a goal or intention:

• I’m showing you the recipe so that you may/can make it again tomorrow

That is why French uses:

• pour que + subjunctive

Very often, English does not visibly mark this difference, but French does.

La is a direct object pronoun meaning it.

It refers back to la recette.

So:

• refaire la recette = to make the recipe again
• la refaire = to make it again

French replaces the noun with an object pronoun, and that pronoun goes before the infinitive here.

So the structure is:

• tu puisses la refaire
• literally: you may be able it to-make-again
• natural English: you can make it again

Because refaire means to do again or to make again.

It is built from:

• faire = to do / to make
• re- = again

So:

• faire la recette = to make the recipe
• refaire la recette = to make the recipe again

Using refaire makes the idea of repetition explicit. Since the sentence also has demain, the full sense is that the person will be able to make it again the next day.

Because the pronoun belongs to the infinitive refaire, not to puisses.

French pronoun placement can be tricky, but a useful rule is:

• if the pronoun is the object of an infinitive, it usually goes right before that infinitive

So:

• tu puisses refaire la recette = full version
• tu puisses la refaire = with pronoun

The la is not the object of puisses; it is the object of refaire.

No. After pour que, standard French requires the subjunctive, not the indicative.

So:

• correct: pour que tu puisses
• incorrect: pour que tu peux

This is a very common learner mistake because English says so that you can, and can does not show a special subjunctive form. But French does.

Putting demain at the end is natural because it modifies the idea la refaire.

So the flow is:

• pour que tu puisses la refaire demain
• so that you can make it again tomorrow

French adverbs of time are often flexible, but the end position is very common and natural here.

For example, you might also hear:

• Demain, je te montre... if tomorrow refers to the showing
• but here demain refers to when you will remake it

So its current position makes the meaning especially clear.