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Three Teenage girls, Lynda, Laurie & Annie, walking & talking to each other about the college:
Lynda: Anyway, today in class, in French class, Mr. Leclerc was totally flirting with me.
Annie: (Laughs)
Laurie: God, here we go!
Lynda: We were conjugating the verb "to want."
Laurie: Because he so wants you!
Laurie: Je veuxl Je veuxl
I bolded the sentence where I got confused in understanding it.
Is she saying to want has so many meanings to it or anything else?
The verb want does have a variety of meanings. When it is applied a person, it can mean that the person is desired romantically or sexually by another person.
In French class, they were conjugating the verb vouloir, which is French for want. Lynda construes this as flirting by the teacher, since if the teacher says "I want you" to her (or any other student), it could interpreted as a romantic desire. Laurie thinks this is silly and mocks her by saying "Je veux" (I want).
To conjugate a verb is
to list the forms of a verb in a particular order normally by person.
In English, want is a regular verb and so is
1st person singular: I want
2nd person singular: Thou wantest
3rd person singular: He/she/it wants.
1st person plural: We want
2nd person plural: You want
3rd person plural: They want
French, however, has many more irregular verbs and so conjugating the verb is a regular practice in French class.
