Vocabulaire 5.2 Français I

Excusez-moi! Excuse me!

Monsieur! Waiter!

Madame! Waitress! (one who looks old enough to be married)

Mademoiselle! Waitress!

La carte, s’il vous plaît. The menu, please.

Vous avez choisi? Have you decided? Have you chosen?

Vous prenez? What are you having?

Vous avez ___? Do you have ___? Insert the name of a beverage or a drink in the blank (iwith an appropriate article).

Qu’est-ce que vous avez comme boissons? What do you have to drink?

Qu’est-ce qu’il y a à boire? What is there to drink? Remember that you can use the verb manger in Qu’est-ce qu’il y a à manger? to ask “What is there to eat?”

Je voudrais ___. I would like ___. Insert the name of a food or beverage in the blank (with an appropriate article).

Je vais prendre ___ s’il vous plaît. I’ll have ___, please. Insert the name of a food or beverage in the blank (with the appropriate article).

... s’il vous plaît.... please. Use this form with someone you don’t know or to show respect. You can also use it when talking to more than one person. You would use this form with a waiter / waitress. Use s’il te plaît with a friend or someone else you know well.

Donnez-moi ___, s’il vous plaît; Please give me ___. Insert the name of a food or beverage in the blank (with an appropriate article).

Apportez-moi ___, s’il vous plaît. Please bring me ___, please. Insert the name of a food or beverage in the blank (along with the appropriate article).