"Je veux un livre."
Translation:I want a book.
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"Vouloir" in the present tense: Je veux, tu veux, il/elle/on veut, nous voulons, vous voulez, ils/elles veulent.
I knew that "livre" also means "pound" and tried that. What I didn't know is that the weight is feminine while the book is masculine. That will teach me to look at the options under the words.
My mum wont take me to the library and my school doesnt have books i like so JE VEUX UN LIVRE!
Should the x in "veux" be pronounced here since it is followed by a vowel? Would it be pronounced voiced (z) or nonvoiced (s)?
The liaison is optional, but if you want to mark it, use the Z sound.
Je veux, tu veux, il/elle/on veut, nous voulons, vous voulez, ils/elles veulent
If this was in English wouldn't "I would like a book" be an acceptable translation? Or am I mistaking that for "je voudrais"?? Thanks in advance for any clarification!
Yeah 'I would like' 'Je voudrais'is distinctly different from 'Je veux' I want.
@Meghan Callaghan
"I would like a book" would be more polite anyway. You are not mistaking it for "je voudrais". It's just "I want a book".
https://forvo.com/search/je%20vais/
https://forvo.com/search/je%20veux/
However, what would "I go a book" mean?
Please explain, sometimes veux sounds like "vuh" sometimes it sounds like "voo," are they both correct? The female and male don't pronounce it the same.
It doesn't sound like either of those transcriptions. It's /vø/, with the mid-high front rounded vowel, a sound that doesn't exist in English.
It is more polite to say "I would like a book" "I want' can sound petulant - poor manners
You will learn the conditional mood in due time and then you will be as polite in French as you are in English.
Thank you. There's no problem with the French present tense. It's the English translation which is dubious. I 'want' is a literal translation and it will pass in some English variants, but in polite English I 'would like' (the conditional tense) translates 'je veux' at least as well, and it shouldn't be 'marked' as incorrect.
Neither. It's pronounced /livʁ(ə)/, with an optional schwa on the end that they tend to pronounce in the south of France. But you need the r-sound in there.
Is there a differemce between avons and veux? From what I remember they both mean want.
Avons is the 1st-person plural present tense of avoir, 'to have.' So it means '(we) have'.
