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How to Say ‘Can I have the receipt, please?’ in French

Je peux avoir le ticket, s'il vous plaît ?

zhuh puh ah-VWAHR luh tee-kay seel eel voo pleh

[zhuh puh ah-VWAHR luh tee-kay seel eel voo pleh]

🇫🇷 In France: Receipts are often not printed unless you ask, or the cashier may ask Vous voulez le ticket ? "Do you want the receipt?".

Phrase Breakdown

Je peux avoir

zhuh puh ah-VWAHR

Can I have

This opens a polite request. Run the words together smoothly: 'zhuh-puh-ah-vwar'.

Example

Je peux avoir un sac ?

Can I have a bag?

Words in this phrase

[zhuh]

Pronoun used by the speaker to identify themselves.

Example

Je suis content.

I am happy.

peux

[puh]

can / may

From the verb pouvoir; used to ask permission or say what you are able to do.

Example

Est-ce que je peux vous parler après le cours ?

May I speak to you after class?

avoir

[ah-VWAHR]

to have

Infinitive used as part of 'avoir l’air,' meaning 'to seem' or 'to look.'

Example

Je croyais pourtant avoir l'air très sérieux ce soir, au moins pendant cinq minutes.

I thought I looked very serious tonight, at least for five minutes.

le ticket,

luh tee-kay

the receipt,

'Ticket' is the receipt here. Say 'luh tee-keh' and pause briefly at the comma.

Example

Voici le ticket.

Here is the receipt.

Words in this phrase

[luh]

the

Used as a function word to indicate a noun and to mark the noun as definite.

Example

Le chat noir.

The black cat.

ticket

[tee-kay]

receipt / ticket

In shops or cafés, ticket often means receipt.

Example

Le ticket, s'il vous plaît, merci.

The receipt, please, thank you.

s'il vous plaît ?

seel eel voo pleh

please?

Your voice rises here because the whole sentence is a question: 'seel-voo-pleh?'

Example

Vous pouvez répéter, s'il vous plaît ?

Can you repeat, please?

Words in this phrase

[seel]

Shortened form in the polite phrase 's'il vous plaît.' Literally it comes from 'if.'

Example

S' il vous plaît est une formule très polie.

'S'il vous plaît' is a very polite expression.

[eel]

Used as a subject pronoun for things or concepts.

Example

Il fait beau aujourd'hui.

It is nice today.

vous

[voo]

you

Used to refer to the person or people being addressed.

Example

Vous aimez le film?

Do you like the movie?

plaît

[pleh]

pleases

Verb form from 'plaire.' In the full expression it contributes to the meaning 'please.'

Example

Le mot plaît est très fréquent dans la formule polie.

The word 'plaît' is very common in the polite expression.

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