What is the correct translation of "Do we go to the cinema?"

Question

Nous allons à le cinéma!

Means "We go to the cinema". But how would I say you want to include the word "do", like a question

Do we go to the cinema?

Can I just add the word "faire" that means "do"?

Faire nous allons à le cinéma?

What is correct?

“Do” is not a verb here, it's an auxiliary. It doesn't have the meaning of the verb (act, make) here. As an auxiliary, “do” doesn't really carry any meaning, it's just here because English grammar requires an auxiliary in a direct question except when the verb is be. — Gilles 'SO nous est hostile', Mar 24 '20 at 22:16

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 17 '20 at 09:38

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We go to the cinema.

formally translates to:

Nous allons au cinéma (note that à le turns to au).

but the usual way to say it would use on instead of nous:

On va au cinéma.

When a question, French doesn't use "do" but either inversion, specific adverbs or just intonation so that makes:

Allons-nous au cinéma ? (formal, literary)

Est-ce que nous allons au cinéma ? (formal)

Est-ce qu'on va au cinéma ? (standard)

Here are common, real life variants:

On va au ciné ?

On se fait une toile ?

edited Jun 17 '20 at 09:38

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answered Mar 24 '20 at 22:09

jlliagre

So I can use this Allons-nous au cinéma ? ? – euraad Mar 24 '20 at 22:17
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Sure, that would delight a French language teacher. – jlliagre Mar 24 '20 at 22:34
Merci beaucoup! – euraad Mar 24 '20 at 22:53
** Varsågod ** – jlliagre Mar 25 '20 at 00:36

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