"Elle écrit et je lis."

Translation: She is writing and I am reading.

[s-thet]

elle ècrit et jolie anybody? :)

[mastery0da]

I went further. Thought it was something like "Her handwriting is nice"... So "Elle écrit est joli"...

[Krauty]

thank you :)

[fastadder]

glad someone else wrote that as well. : )

[PainfullyIndie]

haha yes

[facw]

yeah that's what i heard too...

[coldfire1784]

yep...me too :)

[laila33]

oui pareil !!

[ProfesorAntonnio]

Yes, but I didn't make the mistake because I remembered that the lesson was about "verbs" :)

[iprivera]

hahaha Très drôle ;) Moi aussi

[deactivated user]

she writes and I read

[Powerforce]

That was really hard to understand! It sounded like 'ehjolie'

[TorstenK]

understood: Eh, le fille est jolie! :-)

[charlye337]

yes it sounds like et jollie

[albertogs]

Why is it "elle écrit" and not "elle écrie"?

[djami_duo]

because it's the third person:
j'écris, tu écris, il/elle écrit

[Daniel_B]

it is pronounced like "elle écrie", but it is spelled like "elle écrit".

[u83rmensch]

google translate says lis is "lily" whats the deal here, i assume there is a reason one way or the other?

[kathgrimo]

because google translate does not take tenses and conjugation into play when it translates things. (je lis, tu lit, il/elle lit, ect. are all tenses or to read.. like I read, you read, he/she reads)

[abrooksie]

google translate just stinks. It's really that simple

[Daniel_B]

it's true.

[NomadaJaime]

Lis is a verbal form of "Lire". The flower is a noun. Context helps.

Is the same reason why "Leo" in Spanish can mean either "I read" or the Zodiac sign.

[yalu12]

I wrote elle écrit et je livre :(

[weltburger]

I can't hear clearly.

[Polino4ka]

She said like a frog)))kva, kva

[eryc.design]

Seriously, where can I learn how to conjugate the verbs in french? I'm finding that a harder job than understanding whole concept of the language at all.

[Canadian1881]

any bescherelle book will do the trick.

[kovike]

That is what the police officer said when asked why they always go in pairs.

[shahrukhs]

What a sweet couple.

[Duodarling]

The 's' is pronounced? Why not silent like in le jus and gris?