French: Inversion in French questions, first person singular

[orpheus_samhain]

Do French native speakers use the inversion in questions in the first person singular?

Je pèse --> pèse-je,

or do they simply say: Est-ce que je pèse (60 kilos - for example)?

Comments

[klausnick]

Yes.

[orpheus_samhain]

Which one yes?

[klausnick]

Je pèse --> pèse-je,

[jescid]

Не со всеми глаголами. В вашем примере - нет.
Но dois-je - да, так говорят.

[klausnick]

“Puis-je” comes from the verb “pouvoir” and means “may I”. It used to be the common way to ask for something:

Puis-je téléphoner ? Puis-je vous aider ? Puis-je m’asseoir ?
May I make a phone call? May I help you? May I seat down?

In today’s modern spoken French however, “puis-je” sounds very formal: instead, people use “pourrais-je”, although it’s still very formal, so we would only use it in certain situations, like… maybe for a high-end job interview… or when talking to the Queen of England (she does speak French, I checked…)
https://www.frenchtoday.com/blog/french-verb-conjugation/inversion-with-je/

[jescid]

Right. But pèse-je is wrong. Because pès-er. Pouvoir, devoir etc - can be inverted in the first person singular.
But not for other verbs like peser,

[divine_assass1n]

I don't hear phrases like "pèse-je" in colloquial speech in Belgium, all I hear is Est-ce que bla bla.
Mais puis-je, dois-je, these are used