French Conversation · Level 1
82 words
French word
tu
Pronunciation
IPA/ty/
Meaning
- pronounyou
Example
Tu veux du café ?
Do you want some coffee?
More examples
Tu as le temps ce soir ?
Do you have time tonight?
Core concept
A familiar one-person addressee at the center of a direct conversation.
Common phrases
tu as faim
You are hungry
tu as le temps
You have time
tu sais
You know
Similar words
vous: A polite pronoun for addressing several people or one respected person.
toi: A stressed pronoun for emphasizing or addressing the listener alone.
te: A short object pronoun used with a verb to refer to the listener.
on: A pronoun for unspecified people or a group including the speaker.
Definition in French
S'emploie, dans le tutoiement, pour s'adresser familièrement à une personne en parlant à la deuxième personne du singulier.
Word origin
French tu continues Latin tu, an inherited second-person singular pronoun from Proto-Indo-European.
Usage tips
- The subject pronoun tu is distinct from the object pronoun te, as in te voir, and te becomes t' before a vowel.