regardes

Regardes is a grammatical form in French. It is the second-person singular present indicative of the verb regarder, meaning to look, watch, or regard. This form corresponds to the informal subject you (tu) and is used in everyday speech and writing to describe what someone is currently doing or what they habitually do.

Morphology and usage: regardes is formed by removing the -er ending from the infinitive regarder and adding -es for the tu form. Other present-tense forms follow the standard patterns of -er verbs: je regarde, il regarde, nous regardons, vous regardez, ils regardent. In negative constructions, regardes appears with ne and pas: "Tu ne regardes pas." In questions, it can begin a question clause: "Tu regardes souvent les étoiles ?" It is typically paired with a direct object or complement, as in "tu regardes le film" or "tu regardes vers le ciel."

Notes and distinctions: regardes is not a standalone noun. The noun regarde (in singular) means a gaze or look, and its plural regards refers to gazes. This noun sense is separate from the verb form regardes. In formal writing or when addressing more than one person, the corresponding form is vous regardez.

Context: As a common verb form, regardes appears frequently in conversation, literature, and media to describe observation, attention, or consideration performed by the person addressed as tu. Its meaning remains primarily rooted in the general sense of looking or regarding something.