souhaites

Souhaites is the second-person singular present indicative form of the French verb souhaiter, meaning to wish or to would like. It is used with the subject tu and is also identical in spelling to the second-person singular present subjunctive form after que (que tu souhaites). The verb souhaiter is a regular -er verb.

The noun un souhait means a wish or desire, and its plural souhaits is a separate word. The noun and the verb share the same root but serve different grammatical functions.

Usage examples include asking what someone would like: “Que souhaites-tu boire ?” or stating a wish: “Je te souhaite un bon voyage.” The construction souhaiter quelque chose à quelqu’un expresses blessing or good wishes toward someone, as in “Je vous souhaite bonne chance.” The verb can also take a subordinate clause introduced by que, requiring the subjunctive: “Je souhaite que tu réussisses.”

Pronunciation and form notes: souhaites is pronounced with a soft -es ending, and it is one of several forms derived from the verb souhaiter. The form je souhaite, nous souhaitons, vous souhaitez, and ils souhaitent follow the same regular -er conjugation pattern, making souhaites one of the commonly encountered inflected forms.

In everyday French, souhaites appears in spoken and written language across requests, offers of best wishes, and expressions of desire. Its close relatives include the noun souhait and other verb forms used to convey wishing or hoping in various tenses and moods.