Tag questions in French or colloquial French

[Adam Kim]

I wonder if there are ways to make tag questions in French or colloquial French. This suddenly ran over my thoughts as many of here are English speakers learning this language and English is known to have many ways of making tag questions.

For example in English: Making a tag question from a sentence "you closed the door" would be "you closed the door, didn't you?" or "you closed the door, no?".

[stu harris]

I've not heard that expression "tag question" but the answer is yes. N'est-ce-pas? can be added to any declarative sentence to make it into a question.

[Neil Coffey]

French doesn't have tags quite like English, but there are a few expressions that are roughly equivalent. Notice how in some of these examples, the word bien is also inserted after the verb (either in the main clause or the tag, as appropriate):

Vous avez bien fermée la porte, non?
T'as rien fait, c'est ça? (Informal style)
Vous avez besoin de plus de temps, c'est bien cela? (Formal style)
Tu ne veux plus venir, ou si?

Note that in French, it's quite common to just say/answer Oui or No where in English it would me more usual to use a tag:

- On a besoin de le faire avant la semaine prochaine.
- Oui.

- We need to do it before next week.
- Yes, we do.


Another common strategy is to repeat the verb:

- Vous m'enverrez le document?
- Oui, je vous l'enverrai.

- Will you send me the document?
- Yes, I will.


In all honesty, I think that expressions/strategies like these are actually more common than n'est-ce pas.