Why The French Say 'I Can Work' Like That #frenchgrammar #learnfrench

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]So, can you say in French she wants?

[00:00:03]Just she wants.

[00:00:13]>> [snorts] >> So, that sound veut is how you conjugate vouloir to want for the singular pronouns. It's always veut. And in this video, we're going to use only veut.

[00:00:28]So, she wants is elle veut.

[00:00:32]So, so far, it's quite simple, but it's really important that you make the sentences out loud yourself, even if it's very simple.

[00:00:42]And you're going to see quickly why.

[00:00:44]So, now how can you say he wants? Just he wants.

[00:00:57]And that's it. That's the same principle. We have that sound veut when we conjugate to want. So, he wants is But now let's say he wants to work.

[00:01:15]So, here we have two verbs in a row. He wants to work.

[00:01:21]And here that's still quite easy. It's like in English.

[00:01:24]So, you can do it. So, how do you say how do you think you should say he wants to work in French? Can you just say he wants to work?

[00:01:51]So, here what do we have? We have he wants il veut.

[00:01:55]So, we conjugate the verb to want.

[00:01:58]That's why in English we add an s. We say wants. He wants. So, il veut.

[00:02:04]And then we have to work. So, that to work with the to be for is the infinitive.

[00:02:11]So, we need to say travailler.

[00:02:16]And that A sound is very important for the second verb because it's the infinitive.

[00:02:22]If you don't say that A sound, what you say in French sounds like he wants work.

[00:02:29]And you hear that in English it doesn't sound really good.

[00:02:33]You really have to say he wants to work.

[00:02:36]That's why you have to say il veut travailler.

[00:02:43]And again here it may seem easy or simple, but this sentence il veut travailler is really the basic model that we're going to use in our sentences.

[00:02:55]And you will see that it's not that obvious with other cases.