hey, not sure if you speak or have learned Spanish, but this is the same grammar deal as in Spanish.... Te is an indirect object pronoun. Soo translated from grammar to English, te means "to you", and the verb of what they're doing to you, comes after it. So if you want to say "he reads to you", just think that in French it's backwards and you're going to say "to you he reads". te lit. The same for the Indirect Object Pronouns to me, to him, to us, etc. It's weird at first, but you get used to it :)

The proper English sentence is: "He reads you the menu."

And that is also excepted. "He reads you the menu" is literally translated, but not proper English. At least at my understanding.

Because reading something to someone and for someone isn't necessarily the same thing.

Try 'he reads the menu to you' instead. It worked for me

Yes, i have the same solution...

It can't be " he reads you" !!!!

Yes. You are not alone. Please do post it on "Post a problem" because nothing can be done with it here.

It's the same thing here :/ I kept saying it for 15 minutes till I got tired.

To be more specific, when the indirect object is sandwiched between the verb and the direct object, there is no "to" because there is no ambiguity in which is the direct and indirect object. The first object is always indirect, and the second is always direct by grammatical construction. When this is not certain, i.e. when the word order is flipped or the direct object is omitted, then "to" is necessary, such as "He reads the book to you" (where "to" is necessary to show that the indirect object is after the direct object) or, even more simply, "He reads to you" (where there is no direct object, and thus it is necessary to show that "you" is indirect.)

Hi sparkle. Alluded to in the very post just above yours. In English it is either "He reads you the menu" or "He reads the menu to you" and the twain dont meet. Also, the literal translation of the French sentence is "He you reads the menu" and the most apt translation to English uses exactly the same words in a different order.

I think it's better English if you write what i wrote. "He reads the menu to you."

Yes, Ellie until it is compared to your profile.

First, it's "the menu" not "a menu" because it's « le » not « un ». You'd miss it on that alone. But more than that, it's pretty clunky English. You can say "He reads you the menu" or "He reads the menu to you."

You are supposed to swap the "reads" and the "you" over for it to make sense.

It aint mate. Arielleog, it's kack and you're not alone. For three years I've seen posts just like yours. Keep reporting it.

Because "tu" is only used as the subject in a sentence, the one doing whatever it is. In this case the subject of the sentence is "il" because "he" is doing the reading.

Since the reading is done "to you", you would use "te" in front of the verb, which would indicate the object/person the reading is being done to.