please tell me why it is:
vous aiment des roses?
and not:
aimez-vous des roses?
And I've also read once "vous veulent"
how can VOUS go togehter with a verb in the third person plural (instead of the second person plural)???
the second question :
i think it was : ils( or elles) vous veulent....
the subject is "ils"(or "elles") so you have the third person plural
the correct form is "aimez-vous les roses?"
but "vous aimez les roses?" is correct too
Thank you - I thought that this was a mistake on the page where I read that.
(But then I thought maybe it is a special form that I have never heard of....)
or it is a question
vous veulent-ils/elles...?
but "vous veulent" is incorrect
Autre foix, bien fait!
There are 4 ways to ask a question:
1. Est-ce que vous aimez des roses? (beginning with "est-ce que/qu'.....")
2. Vous aimez des roses? (straight word order, as in a declarative sentence, adding the question mark)
3. Aimez-vous des roses? (inversion, verb + subject with the hyphen)
4. Vous aimez des roses, non? (Straight word order plus a comma and t hen the word "non")
Mme
Thank you very much. I had read that sentence: "vous aiment des roses" and I was wondering if that could be true - perhaps some special tense that I hadn;t heard of before-(especially since I once also read: vous veulent)or if it was merely a misprint. Limited though my knowledge of French is, I had never heard of using the third person plural form of a verb with a second person plural noun.
Merci encore une fois pour votre aide
The sentence "vous aimez des roses?" and "aimez-vous des roses?" both mean "do you like roses?" in English, but they have different structures and word orders.
In French, the subject pronoun "vous" is used to address a group of people or to address someone formally, and it corresponds to the second person plural pronoun "you" in English.
In the sentence "vous aimez des roses?", the pronoun "vous" is placed before the verb "aimez" in the second person plural form. This is the usual word order in a simple statement or question.
On the other hand, the sentence "aimez-vous des roses?" uses a subject-verb inversion. This structure is commonly used in formal or literary contexts, or for asking questions. In this case, the verb "aimez" is placed before the pronoun "vous", resulting in the inverted structure.
Regarding "vous veulent", it is not a correct sentence in French. The correct form would be "ils/elles vous veulent," which means "they want you."
To sum up, "vous" is used with a verb in the second person plural form because it represents a group of people or someone being addressed formally. The verb form depends on the context and can be either before or after "vous" in the sentence, depending on the word order and the level of formality.