mets les assiettes sur la table, s’il vous plaît.
Mets les assiettes sur la table, s’il vous plaît.
met lay-z-ass-ee-ets sir la tab, see-voo-play
Put the dishes on the table, please.
We going to start learning some useful structures so that we can start saying things that we want with the vocabulary we will learn in this section. Imagine it’s evening and it’s time for supper, le souper (recall that le dîner, dinner, is the noon-time meal in Cajun French). My son might say, Papa, j’ai faim, Papa, I’m hungry. If I’m already making dinner I might ask my son to put the dishes on the table using the sentence above.
Note that s’il vous plaît is invariant and is used in most situations. The informal s’il te plaît is rarely used.
Here are some other useful constructions:
- Allons souper. - Let’s eat supper.
- Quoi tu veux? - What do you want?
- Je veux - I want
- Donne-moi donc - Give me (polite)
- Lave tes mains. - Wash your hands.
- Le souper est paré? - Is supper ready?
- J’ai besoin de - I need
- Prends le. - Take it.
- Quoi t’aimerais - What would you like?
- Tu veux une goûtée. - Do you want a taste?
- Tu t’as passé de ton souper? - Did you do without your supper?
Here is the Quizlet set for the above phrases.