In the sentence 'We waters his lawn every so often,' why is 'waters' used instead of 'water'?

if We is a proper name this sentence is grammatically correct.

It's a typo. So is "someting".

Should be “He waters his lawn.” I suppose we could water his lawn too, if he asks nicely. Just a typo.

This could be considered correct grammatically if We is a name/proper noun and not the plural pronoun

Because it's incorrect. "We water his lawn every so often." is correct English. There is the possibility that the "We" was a typo, because "He waters his lawn every so often." would be correct as well.

I can’t think of any context where this sentence would be grammatically correct. I’m assuming it’s a typo

It's a typo - should be "He" not "We".

It's probably intended to be southern Black dialect from some old novel the AI scraped for examples of the phrase. It is not correct standard English.

Definitely a mistake. They were either going for 'he waters' or 'we water' and accidentally typed the wrong thing.

It’s wrong

not grammatically correct for standard, written English. HOWEVER, you might hear from someone who uses African-American Vernacular English (AAVE).

They forgot they wrote we and not he.

Cause it was written by Gollum.

They meant to write 'he' but if you go to the hood you'll hear this.

two typos and a missing comma.

We water our lawn every so often He waters his lawn every so often She waters her lawn every so often They water their lawn every so often It waters our lawn every so often *(if talking about something like an automatic sprinkler)*

Because it's wrong

It's wrong.

If it truly was meant as “we water his lawn every so often.” (Because we are good neighbors, or we work for him or whatever) then the ‘s’ is dropped from waters because the verb should match the entity doing the verb. In “we water his lawn every so often.” we are the ones doing the verb “to water” so it is “we water” according to the general rules to conjugate verbs in English. -I water -you water -he/she waters -we water -they water *I’m not sure about the singular they. Should it be “they water their lawn” when the gender isn’t known or mentioned?

It's an error. 'Water' as verb should always agree with the subject.

That’s something they would’ve said on The Color Purple tbh😭

"He waters his ..." or "we water our ..."

Because every so often is more than once, so he waterS. He will water his lawn and I will water my lawn are singular. He watered is past tense.

Either there is a man out there named "We", or this is a mistake.

It is in some dialects, but not in standard English.

It has to be a typo. We = he

Because the person who wrote it made a typo. Unless of course, the sentence is actually about a man named We, in which case the sentence would be correct.

I hear this in a west country accent.

Typo

I actually read that with Gollum's voice in my head. Definitely a typo.

mistake. it should be "water". unless you're gollum

It was suppose to say He waters his lawn

The only way it works is if "We" is a person's name. But that would be an extremely unusual name in any english-speaking culture I know of, and a terrible choice for an example as you've found. More likely it's a typo and was supposed to say "**He** waters..."

It is supposed to be “he” because later it says “his”. If it was “We” it would have been “We water our lawn every so often.” Probably a typo or auto-incorrect.

why nobody's talking about "every so often"? Don't tell me it's correct 😭

Replace “we” with “he.”

I've never seen anyone with the name We

Makes no sense. Had to be a typo.

It doesn’t make sense unless We is a person’s name.

It should be we water.

That's a typo. It's definitely "we water".

It should be "he waters his lawn..."