allez-vous in French: are you going (formal/plural); how are you (in 'comment allez-vous') (other)

/ale vu/

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Translation

are you going (formal/plural); how are you (in 'comment allez-vous')

Word origin

A phrase combining allez, the second-person plural of aller (from Latin ambulare, 'to walk'), with the inverted subject pronoun vous (from Latin vos, 'you').

Origin: Latin
Root: ambulare + vos

Examples

- aujourd'hui ?

How are you today?

- cet ?

Where are you going on holiday this summer?

- au ?

Are you going to the concert tonight?

- ?

How have you been since your knee operation?

- Berlin ?

Are you going to accept his job offer in Berlin?

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This word is part of lesson 17.