"Vous cherchez votre chat ?"

Translation: You are looking for your cat?

[StupidCycl]

Could somebody tell me why "You search for your cat" isn't okay please?

[arachne111]

I've written "are you searching your cat?", what's wrong with it?

[daddydreal]

You arent searching inside your cat ;p, you are searching for it

[deactivated user]

A casual, more common way to express this in American English might be "You looking for your cat?"

[n6zs]

The French commonly use the "statement as question" form with a voice inflection at the end to show that it is a question. It only works in spoken French. In writing, it would be done differently:

• Est-ce que vous cherchez votre chat ?
• Cherchez-vous votre chat ?

In English, the statement as question form is commonly used but it is very informal.

[aaime]

I have written an English word order Are you looking for your cat? and it is wrong... how so?

[Debidob]

Is "search" and "look" not interchangeable?

[n6zs]

No, "chercher" is "to look for". "Regarder" = to look (at).