"Are you ready?"
Translation:Est-ce que vous êtes prêts ?
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Why is it "prête" and "prêt?" I don't understand the difference in this case.
I would add that the masc./fem. differentiation is based on the person you are addressing; if they are male, use prêt and if they are female, use prête. Use masculine terms when referring to mixed groups and femine when referring to a group of exclusively women. Hope that helped a little!
If you're conversing with someone, you presumably know their gender so use that. If you're doing an audio exercise here on DL, prête has an audible "t" sound at the end, but prêt will sound like "pray."
When the prompt says "Are you ready?" in English, there's no way to know, and it's marking "pret" wrong.
Never mind; the error was that I was using "est" instead of "es" after "Tu". Problem is almost always the loose screw behind the keyboard.
Yep, its just words on the screen along with a guy's imaey, but "pret" is marked wrong, only "prete" is accepted (Dec 2020)
There is no audio to give us a clue, but my answer ("tu est prets") is marked wrong.
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You have two things wrong with that. The "être" conjugation for "tu" is "es", not "est". And since you are using "tu", you need to use one of the singular forms of "prêt" (masculine) or "prête" (feminine).
the audio was not the problem. i tried to match the verb (etre) with pret (sorry, cell keyboard doesn't have all accents). My mis-think was since you have "tu", you match it with "es" and then add the silent s to pret to become prets. Blah! Apparently singular/plural didn't click! You're analysis was spot on! (May 2021)
i ASSUMED that since the answers were multiple choice, the best answer was feminine as there was no sigular masculine choice - only a plural masculine choice.
I agree. There is nothing to differentiate gender. We should get that point
In franch we have " la conjugaison des verbes " so in each case we have a special way to write the verbe correctly
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You need to be more specific about what confuses you, in order for your classmates to help you. Can you see it as a statement with a noun and a verb? Then can you turn it into a question? There are three ways to make questions in French. All are described in this discussion. I suggest you read the discussion and THEN ask a specific question.
I found it odd that both "Êtes-vous prêt ?" and "Êtes-vous prêts ?" were accepted. Some Googling later, I learnt that "vous" can be singular and plural. (Just thought I'd share that).
Vous is formal. Tu is informal. It just means "you" which, as in English, can be both.
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vous is also therefore singular and plural as in third person singular and third person plural, as Stephen points out above
How would one know it's supposed to be masculine or feminine? What should one look for?
Listen for the "T""
If you are asking someone if they are ready - When you ask a man or boy if they are ready you would say "Tu est prêt ?". Note there is no e on the end of the word so you do not pronounce the t.
When you ask a girl or woman you would say ''Tu est prête ?" When there is an e on the end of the word you pronounce the T.
So the key in this sentence is to listen for a ''T'' in prête. If you hear a ''T'' then prête is feminine. If you don''t hear the ''T'' then prêt is masculine.
Many adjectives are made feminine simply by adding an ''e'' at the end of the word. When this happens the consonant preceeding the ''e'' is pronounced.
There's no sound on the app so you cannot hear the t. Both should be accepted as correct.
On 5/23/19, no audio accompanied this question. DL accepted my answer "Vous êtes prêts."
However, with NO audio, ALL of the answers below should also be accepted by DL as a correct written translation of “Are you ready?” because: (1) “you” can refer to both singular and plural and (2) one cannot listen for an audible "t" in prête / prêtes, which would indicate that the question is being addressed to a woman (or more than one woman).
INFORMAL, SINGULAR
"Tu es prêt" -- addressing a man
"Tu es prête -- addressing a woman
FORMAL, SINGULAR
"Vous êtes prêt" -- addressing a man
"Vous êtes prête -- addressing a woman
PLURAL, INFORMAL AND FORMAL
"Vous êtes prêts -- addressing men or mixed (women and men)
"Vous êtes prêtes" -- addressing only women
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No, the circonflexe was taken down only in u and i. Besides, I think Duo still uses the old writing.
In French verbes are conjugated with regards to a person's perspective (1. 2. or 3. person), as well as singular/plural, tenses, etc.
In this case the conjugation ("bending") of the verb être (present tense) is as follows:
SINGILAR 1. Je suis 2. Tu es 3. Il/elle/on est PLURAL 1. Nous sommes 2. Vous êtes 3. Ils/elles sont
Please excuse the spelling errors. Writing fast on a phone, does not make for a correctly spelled sentence
"prêtes" is feminine plural, but "es-tu" is asking a single person. Correct would be any of the following:
"Es-tu prêt" or "Es-tu prête" asking a single male person (1st) or single female person (2nd) informally
"Êtes-vous prêt" or "Êtes-vous prête" asking a single male person (1st) or a single female person (2nd) formally
"Êtes-vous prêts" or "Êtes-vous prêtes" asking multiple male people or male/female mixed people (1st) or multiple all-female people (2nd)
There is a problem with this exercise because as has already been mentioned by others in this discussion group, we do not know whether the 'tu' is masculine or feminine. Both 'prêt' and 'prête' should be accepted as correct.
Isn't the circonflexe officially no longer needed? Why did it tell me I was only "almost correct" when I simply left off the circonflexe?
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No, the circonflexe was taken down only in i and u. Besides, I think Duo still uses the old writing.
Yes, however, you use it to adress someone formally, so you adress a single person with ''Etes-vous ....?''
There was no sound so I put 'tu es prêt ? I didn't go to the hints where they only show the feminine word... Both should have been correct in this instance!!! Grrrrr!
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I answered "tu es prete" and was marked wrong. (2/27/2020). No gender was indicated. They owe me a heart!
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That is very unlikely, you must have had a typo. There are various alternate options that are accepted as well, but that one is the suggested correct answer.
"Tu es prêt?" should be an accepted answer. We do not know the gender of who we are addressing, therefore we must default to the masculine.
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That is the French convention, but Duo does not treat it (or any punctuation except apostrophes and hyphens) as an error.
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prete is used with female persons. Use pret with male persons. Both of these are for a single person. Each needs an s added when there are plural people. However this doesn't mean the computer has all these answers sometimes.
I consider my reply (masculine) correct because in the sentence in Englis there is no way to know the gender for "are you ready?" because there is no context.
Is "Est-ce que tu est prête?" wrong? I see how it can sound unnatural, but is it grammatically incorrect?
prêtes should be fine as long as (a) you used vous and not tu and (b) the persons that you're asking are all female.
Tu es pret was marked wrong. This is the first time I'm seeing this hyphenated format. Can someone shine some 411 my way please, thanks...
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If you don't include your entire answer (copy and paste is best), then no one can explain.
The english version has no gender information, no way to determine the answer should be in feminine.
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If you are going to make a comment like that, you need to copy and paste your answer here. You were likely still using "est" as in your previous comment.
The question is asked in English with no voiceover, therefore "prêt" is the answer, given that, absent any indicators, the assumption is masculine.
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If it's not indicated by the context, then both should be accepted. If you think it wasn't, then include your entire answer (copy and paste) in your comment.
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If you mean, how do you know which it is...(in case that was your question?)...then you learn the gender of a noun when you learn vocabulary (or you look it up on the computer)
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It is apparently used in very informal speech, but not for writing, so it won't be accepted here.
Ridiculous! Either masculine or feminine should be accepted. It is not voiced thus there is no way to know if which gender. In every other instance the image is the one speaking; why is the image the one addressed in this one?
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But I cannot explain why your response was rejected, if you have faithfully reproduced the spelling that you entered.
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It looks correct to me. Sometimes the computer doesn't have all the correct answers. I assume you had accents marks, although duo rarely marks you wrong if you leave them out. According to two very good descriptions above, your example is one of the correct translations: 2nd person formal.
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It looks correct to me. If you read the discussion you will see that not all forms are in the computer yet. Reporting it can help get all forms included but only if you use the REPORT button.
The answer says "Another correct solution" so "prête" and "prêt" are both correct
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If there is no audio, both forms of the word (prêt/prête) should be correct otherwise it isn't fair
Not showing any femine so i can use any of them prête or prêtes why showing wrong..?i is tu es may be i am talking or asking with femine
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« Vous êtes prêt(e)s », « Êtes-vous prêt(e)s », and « Est-ce que vous êtes prêt(e)s » are all accepted. You can't use it with « tu », however, as « tu » is singular.
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I do not know the sex of thr person that I am addressing so I should use 'prêt. It was marked wrongly and it is correct. Marking is definitely not always correct - VERY annoying!
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Good, that means it's working. 'Est' is third-person singular – you use 'êtes' with 'vous'.
Tu es prêt should be marked right or duo should offer some explanation so as not to confuse us ,foreign students
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"prête" is feminine singular and "prêts" is masculine plural. All options are accepted if you use the right subject pronoun. e.g. You can't use "prêts" with "tu".
You're thinking of verbs; think adjectives (petit, petite, adding 's' for plural)
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Hoe would I now difference in masc end fem want translating "Are you ready?" = Tu es pret? Why is pret wrong?
My phone doesn't allow me french letter options such as egg oeuf. I know the o and e are connected
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Try switching on the French keyboard. This should enable accents in the English keyboard if they are not already enabled.
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Even my English phone keyboard gives me the option if I hold the "o" key. If you're using Android maybe you need to try a different keyboard. But regardless, as someone else already said, the answer will be accepted even if you write "oe". At most it will tell you that there was another correct answer with the special character.
Because the question provides ''Tu'', the adjective should be singular.
Otherwise, it should be ''Nous sommes/Vous êtes/Ils sont/Elles sont + prêts/prêtes.
**plural:
masculine plural -> prêts
mixed both masculine and feminine -> prêts
feminine plural -> prêtes
**singular:
masculine -> prêt
feminine -> prête
The options only provide ''prêts'' and ''prête'' for me. Not sure every one gets the same options, so i rewite my response.
THx, GraemeSarg. I should be more specific ;)
If we are using the same card then not only is there no audio but if there were it we be spoken in English (or whatever is your native language. Gender CA not be determined from just reading the English.
Vous is not one of the options so we must use tu. Tu is always singular. The two options for pret are pretes of prey. So it isn't a problem with gender. It is a problem with number. Pretes is plural so it can't be used with tu. So the person we are talking to is one man, since prete is not an option in the word bank, we must use pretty, if you are using the keyboard we should be able to answer in ignorance of their gender prete or pret.
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You are not conjugating a verb. Prête is an adjective and so must match the subject in gender and number.
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"Tu" is singular and "prêtes" is plural, so the combination cannot possibly be grammatically correct.
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Thanks for sharing. Sometimes we understand and sometimes I just do a quick answer. Perhaps they are all helpful to someone?
I used prete and it was marked wrong. Others used pret and it was marked wrong. ???
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prêt is an adjective, and so matches the noun it describes E.g. Les filles sont prêtes ? Les garçons sont prêts ? Est-il prêt? Est-elle prête? HTH
Tu could be masculine or feminine therefore I think the masculine form pret os correct
