The preposition chez can be used with a person/name, a stress pronoun (moi, toi, lui, elle...), or with a business/profession's name (dentist,...) to mean "to or at <someone>'s place/shop/house":
Nous allons chez Marc.
We're going to Marc's place.
On se retrouvera chez Lucie.
We'll meet at Lucie's place.
Jean va chez le dentiste.
John is going to the dentist's.
Je suis chez le coiffeur.
I'm at the hairdresser's.
It can also be used in a more general sense to express "at home" or "in <someone's> life".
Ils sont chez eux.
They're home.
Tout va bien chez vous?
Is everything good with you?
Faites comme chez vous
Make yourself at home
ATTENTION: Case of à la maison vs chez moi
When used in this context, 'maison' is closer to 'home' than literally 'house': and just as in English, you would never say "I'm going to my home", but "I'm going home", in French, you will never use "à ma maison / à ta maison...", but you will use instead the generic "à la maison".
Here, you can also use chez moi (at/to my place) as well as à la maison (at home/home):
Je rentre chez moi.
I'm going back home.
Je rentre à la maison.
I'm going home.
When talking about someone else's home, once again you cannot use à ta maison, à sa maison in French: therefore, the only solution is to use chez:
Il vient chez toi plus tard.
He's coming to your place later.
Je suis passé par chez elle ce matin.
I passed by her place this morning.
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Jean va chez le dentiste.
John is going to the dentist's.
Je rentre à la maison.
I'm going home.
Je suis chez le coiffeur.
I'm at the hairdresser's.
Ils sont chez eux.
They're home.
On se retrouvera chez Lucie.
We'll meet at Lucie's place.
Je rentre chez moi.
I'm going back home.
Je suis passé par chez elle ce matin.
I passed by her place this morning.
Nous allons chez Marc.
We're going to Marc's place.
Il vient chez toi plus tard.
He's coming to your place later.
broader sense
Faites comme chez vous
Make yourself at home
Tout va bien chez vous?
Is everything good with you?
Q&A
Laura
Kwiziq language super star
25/08/16
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.
Jennifer
Kwiziq community member
6 August 2017
1 reply
Se retrouver versus rencontrer?
Is there a difference in usage between se retrouver and rencontrer? I think they both mean to meet.
Ron
Kwiziq community member
8 August 2017
8/08/17
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