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French questions with object pronouns: ten placement questions

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Practise le vois-tu, est-ce que tu lui parles and peux-tu le vérifier. Ten questions cover object placement, past tenses, negatives, y, en and infinitives.

In short

In Le vois-tu ?, the object le stays before the verb and the subject tu follows it. With est-ce que, keep Est-ce que tu le vois ? With an infinitive, put the object before that infinitive: Peux-tu le vérifier ?

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Two friends pause on a French park path, one shading their eyes and looking towards a distant third friend beside a tree.
The distant friend gives le vois-tu ? a setting. Illustration: Atelier
Study first: find the subject and object
StatementInverted questionWhat moves?
Tu la comprends.La comprends-tu ?Subject tu follows comprends.
Vous lui répondez.Lui répondez-vous ?Subject vous follows répondez.
Tu y participes.Y participes-tu ?Subject tu follows participes.
Tu en veux.En veux-tu ?Subject tu follows veux.

The object can be a thing, a person, a place or an amount. In every row, the subject does the action. The object pronoun stays with the verb that takes it. Everyday questions keep the whole statement order: Tu la comprends ?

Which verb takes the object?

Study first: one verb or two
ConstructionQuestionPosition
Simple tenseLe vérifiez-vous ?le before vérifiez
Compound tenseL’avez-vous vérifié ?l’ before avez
Modal + infinitivePouvez-vous le vérifier ?le before vérifier
Negative questionNe le vérifiez-vous pas ?ne before le; pas after vous

The compound-tense model refers to a masculine résultat. With a feminine object, write Cette réponse ? L’avez-vous vérifiée ? In a modal question, pouvoir takes the subject inversion while vérifier keeps its object. With two objects, keep the pair’s ordinary order: Le lui expliques-tu ?

For each question, check the full noun or phrase in the prompt before choosing a pronoun. Then check the verb. The ten items mix simple questions with past, negative and infinitive frames.

  1. Question 1No account needed
    Replace cette règle and use inversion.Tu comprends cette règle.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    La comprends-tu ?. Règle gives object la, which stays before comprends. Subject tu follows the verb.

  2. Question 2No account needed
    Replace à Nora and keep est-ce que.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Est-ce que tu lui réponds ?. After est-ce que, keep subject tu, object lui, then verb réponds.

  3. Question 3No account needed
    Ask “Can you check it?” with inversion.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Peux-tu le vérifier ?. Le belongs to vérifier, so it stays before that infinitive. Peux inverts with tu.

  4. Question 4No account needed
    Ask whether the masculine résultat was checked.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    L’avez-vous vérifié ?. The elided object l’ goes before auxiliary avez. The masculine participle is vérifié.

  5. Question 5No account needed
    Replace cette réponse in the past question.Avez-vous reçu cette réponse ?

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    L’avez-vous reçue ?. Réponse is feminine. The preceding direct object gives reçue, and l’ stays before avez.

  6. Question 6No account needed
    Choose the negative inverted question.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Ne lui as-tu pas écrit ?. Put ne before lui, invert auxiliary as with tu, then place pas after that group.

  7. Question 7No account needed
    Replace à cet atelier with y and use inversion.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Y participes-tu ?. Y replaces à cet atelier and stays before participes. Subject tu follows it.

  8. Question 8No account needed
    Keep the quantity “two” and use inversion.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    En veux-tu deux ?. En stays before veux, and the quantity deux stays after the inverted group.

  9. Question 9No account needed
    Keep both objects before the verb.Tu expliques le problème à Nora.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Le lui expliques-tu ?. The ordinary pair is le lui. Keep it before expliques and invert only subject tu.

  10. Question 10No account needed
    Keep everyday question order.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Tu la connais ?. An everyday spoken question keeps subject, object and verb in that order: tu la connais.

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