How to say to "conjugated verb" then "regular verb" again? Please fix my mistakes.

[Michael Le]

Pour exemple, je dirais dans ma papier.
"J'ai à passer l'aspirateur tout les jours" - I have to vacuum every day.
Also.. how would you say
"I have to clean the toilets" - It would be "J'ai à nettoyer les toilettes?"

Would this be correct? Is there any better way to say it?
More often used phrase in french countries please would help.

I often say à to say "to" then a "verb"? Is this a bad habit?

Merci beaucoup a l'avance.

[Ed la mouette]

Hello Michael,
First, what did you mean with "ma papier" ? Papier is masculine, so it is "mon papier", but it is an argotic idiom only used by journalists.
There are 2 means of saying what you want :
- je dois nettoyer les toilettes
- j'ai les toilettes à nettoyer (note the inversion)
In the second one, the construction is similar to the sentence "i have fruits to eat", and not "i have to eat fruits".
Hope you understand.

[Michael Le]

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That helped me a lot! :D

[ABC]

Saying à is a bad habit because all verbs mean "to ____" like manger: TO eat or chanter: TO sing.

"I have to vacuum every day" would be: Je dois passer l'aspirateur toute les jours.

Notice my use of the helping verb devoir which means to have to,  or must. Toute also has an e on the end.

"I have to clean the toilets" is: Je dois nettoyer les toilettes. 

Always remember to use the verb devoir (it was conjugated as dois) to say that you have to do something. Also, remember not to use à before a verb because the word "to" is already included in it when it is in its infinitive (regular) form.

[Neil Coffey]

I'm not quite sure about the logic of deciding to use or not use a particular construction on the basis of its translation in another language. In French, if you use avoir with an infinitive, à is inserted and it's a perfectly acceptable, idiomatic construction.

 

I suspect it's also true, as others have previously pointed out, using devoir is more common in the "objectless" case (e.g. J'ai à travailler, rather than J'ai beaucoup de travail à faire: the latter would be perfectly usual I think). But it doesn't have anything to do with the reason you mention.

[Ed la mouette]

Hello ABC,

Notice :) that Toute les jours is incorrect. It is tous les jours. Toute is for feminine singular.

- Je dois passer l'aspirateur tous les jours

- Je dois passer l'aspirateur toute la journée

 

Hello Neil,

J'ai beaucoup de travail à faire can be reduced to simply J'ai beaucoup de travail.

 

[Neil Coffey]

Ed -- They express more or less the same thing, but I guess though that the à faire emphasises the urgency of having to complete the work: J'ai beaucoup de travail et je l'ai à faire (pour demain).