SummaryVoulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir

 Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir? – Do you want to sleep with me tonight?
‘Do you want to sleep with me this evening (tonight)?’ But what if you wanted to ask that
person if they wanted to sleep with someone else? How can you say this?
For example:
‘Do you want to sleep with him tonight?’ To say this, think of all the kings in
France (nearly) and spell it wrong – ‘Voulez-vous coucher avec lui (instead of
Louis) ce soir?’
I think many women were asked this by Louis XIV because he was a bit of a
tart.
If you want to say:
‘Do you want to sleep with her tonight?’ you say:
‘Voulez-vous coucher avec elle ce soir?’ Think - Elle McPhearson – anyone fancy
sleeping with her?
Perhaps you are into group sex (orgy = une partouse) and want to say:
‘Do you want to sleep with us tonight?’
‘Voulez-vous coucher avec nous ce soir?’
If you are more interested if someone wants to sleep with several other people then to say:
‘Do you want to sleep with them tonight?’ is:
‘Voulez-vous coucher avec eux ce soir?’
Or if you are talking about sleeping with several women then you need to say:
‘Voulez-vous coucher avec elles ce soir?’
In this very informative section we have been concentrating on verbs and pronouns. Verbs if
you remember are anything you can do – ‘You do the verb, verb, verb.’
Pronouns are words we use instead of nouns. Nouns being names of things, people, animals or
places. Instead of saying your name you say ‘I’ unless you are 2 years old or very egocentric.
When you are talking to someone else you don’t keep saying their name, unless you are selling
them something, you simply use the word ‘you.’ I will do a more in depth summary of
‘pronouns’ another day. The only thing I need to say is that there are many pronouns. For
example you say ‘I’ if you are doing the verb but you say ‘me’ if you are being affected by the
verb. Par exemple: I want to sleep with you.’ But you say ‘Do you want to sleep with me (not
with I) ?’ Vous comprenez? You understand?
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Words like: with, on, under, about, from, for and 100s of others like this are called
prepositions. They are the little words that link things together. After these funny little
prepositions you use the pronouns: moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux & elles.
So using the preposition ‘with’ = ‘avec’ let’s practise:
With me = Avec moi
With you = Avec toi (talking to one person informally) Explanation on uses of ‘you’ in French.
With him = Avec lui - Think of sleeping with King Louis XIV
With her = Avec elle - Think of sleeping with Elle Macpherson
With us = Avec nous
With you = Avec vous (plural and/or formal)
With them = Avec eux (mixed group or all male) – ‘eux’ is pronounced as if
something smells disgusting – ‘err’)
With them = Avec elles = (all female group)
So using ‘voulez-vous coucher...?’ let’s practise full sentences:
Do you want to sleep with me tonight?
Do you want to sleep with him tonight?
want to sleep with her tonight?
Do you want to sleep with us tonight?
Do you want to sleep with them tonight?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir ?
Voulez-vous coucher avec lui ce soir ?Do you
Voulez-vous coucher avec elle ce soir ?
Voulez-vous coucher avec nous ce soir ?
Voulez-vous coucher avec eux ce soir ? (for a
mixed group or just men)
Voulez-vous coucher avec elles ce soir ? (just women)
For the record there are 3 ways of asking questions in the beautiful French language. What
you have just learned is called inversion because you have said ‘voulez-vous’ literally ‘wantyou.’ I think the simplest way is just to say ‘vous voulez’ ‘you want’ and just change your tone
to a questioning one. Par exemple: ‘Vous voulez coucher avec moi ce soir ?’
You probably learned at school to say ‘Est-ce que vous voulez ?’ meaning literally ‘is it that
you want.’ There is no word for ‘do’ or ‘does’ when asking questions in French. In English you
say ‘do you’ in French you say one of 3 things:
1. Voulez-vous...? (inversion)
2. Vous voulez...? (with a questioning tone – no inversion) or
3. Est-ce que vous voulez...? (no inversion)
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Exercise:
1. Do you want to sleep with me?
2. Do you want to sleep with him?
3. Do you want to sleep with her?
4. Do you want to sleep with us?
5. Do you want to sleep with them
(mixed/male)?
6. Do you want to sleep with them (all
female)?
7. An orgy.
8. Is a pronoun:
a) a word to replace a noun – like I, you, he
b) a noun fan
c) a verb ?
9. Is a preposition:
a) a noun
b) a linking word
c) an indecent proposal?
10. Write the 3 versions of asking ‘do you
want?’ in French (until you can do it without
cheating.)
11. What does ‘vous voulez...?’ mean?
1.
2.
3.
12. What does ‘vous comprenez...?’ mean?
13. What 2 letters do ‘voulez’ and ‘comprenez’
end in? Interesting huh?
14. What is a verb?
15. and an adjective?*
a) a doing/action word
b) a describing word
c) a name of someone/some place/some
where
* If you can’t remember what verbs, nouns and adjectives are then listen here.
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Answers:
1. Do you want to sleep with me?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
2. Do you want to sleep with him?
Voulez-vous coucher avec lui ce soir?
3. Do you want to sleep with her?
Voulez-vous coucher avec elle ce soir?
4. Do you want to sleep with us?
Voulez-vous coucher avec nous ce soir?
5. Do you want to sleep with them
(mixed/male)?
6. Do you want to sleep with them (all
female)?
7. An orgy.
Voulez-vous coucher avec eux ce soir?
8. Is a pronoun:
a) a word to replace a noun – like I, you, he
b) a noun fan
c) a verb ?
9. Is a preposition:
a) a noun
b) a linking word
c) an indecent proposal?
10. Write the 3 versions of asking ‘do you
want?’ in French (until you can do it without
cheating.)
11. What does ‘vous voulez...?’ mean?
a)
12. What does ‘vous comprenez...?’ mean?
Do you understand?
Voulez-vous coucher avec elles ce soir?
Une partouse.
b)
1.Voulez-vous...?
2.Vous voulez...? (no hyphen, no inversion)
3.Est-ce que vous voulez...?
Do you want...?
13. What 2 letters do ‘voulez’ and ‘comprenez’ -ez – yes very interesting. We’ll find out why
end in? Interesting huh?
eventually.
14. What is a verb?
15. and an adjective?* a)
a) a doing/action word
b)
b) a describing word
c) a name of someone/some place/some
where ?
* If you can’t remember what verbs, nouns and adjectives are then listen here.
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