Chez = at someone's place (prepositions)

Sorry, I just realized that rentre is conjugated but it just looks like it is not conjugated in the Je and Il/elle/on forms.

Yes, that's correct. Note also that the infinitive is rentrer. So, the missing r at the end is an indication that this must be a conjugated form and can't be the infinitive. 

Bonjour Rant,

Thanks for writing. I'm American and would never say "I'm going to my home." Mostly I would say "I'm going home." In rare situations, I might say "I'm going to my house," such as in response to someone offering their house instead, but I honestly cannot think of a single situation in which I'd say "I'm going to my home" - it just sounds weird.

Hi Debra,

"Nous avons à la maison" is grammatically incorrect, it means "We have at the house." You could say:

Nous étions à la maison. -- We were at the house. Or, as the topic suggests:
Nous étions chez nous. -- We were at our place. (can also mean "at home")

As a rough guideline, whenever you would, in English, say "at someone's place" you use "chez" in French.

"À la maison" is also in common use and means "at the house" or "at home".

Tu es où ? --  Je suis à la maison. -- Where are you? I am at the house (at home).

-- Chris.

Hi Debra,

Just to add to what Chris has just said:

Nous allons chez Lucie = I am going to Lucie's house.

I think what you were thinking of is, "Nous allons à la maison" not 'havons' which makes no sense .

You cannot in this case  say "Nous allons à la maison de Lucie" which sounds like what a very young child might say.

Hope this helps!

Chez is one of those wonderful Fench words that conveys a multitude of meanings.

As well as the meaning cited above (at someone's place) it also has the following uses:

of/with:  C'est une conviction fondamentale chez moi - It is a fundamental belief of mine (with me).

in (the works of): Le rôle de la socialisation chez Zola - The role of socialisation in (the works of) Zola.

among: L'hypochondrie est répandue chez les Français - Hypochondria is widespread among the French.

in (possesive pronoun) country : La réligion est sur le déclin chez nous - Religion is on the decline in our country.

There are bound to be more uses that I cannot think of.

Thank you everyone

Bonjour Jennifer, Peut-être la dictionnaire Collins-Robert vous aideriez: se retrouver reciprocal reflexive verb to meet, to meet up ⇒ Ils se sont retrouvés devant le cinéma. They met up in front of the cinema. reflexive verb (= s'orienter) to find one's way around se retrouver dans qch [calculs, dossiers, désordre] to find one's way around sth (= finir) se retrouver quelque part to find o.s. somewhere, to end up somewhere se retrouver seul to find o.s. alone se retrouver sans argent to find o.s. with no money (autre locution) s'y retrouver (informal) (financièrement) to break even rencontrer (ʀɑ̃kɔ̃tʀe ) transitive verb [personne] to meet (= trouver) [mot, expression] to come across [difficultés, résistance] to meet with Il me semble que les deux sont synonymes. Bonne chance ! Ron

Bonjour John, The subject of the verb is tout - tout va bien = everything is going well. Yes, you can say tout va bien chez toi, tout va bien chez moi, tout va bien chez nous, etc. Note that if the subect were tu, the correct conjugation is vas: tu vas, il va.