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French personal pronouns (analogous to English I, you, he/she, we, and they) reflect the person and number of their referent, and in the case of the third person, its gender as well (much like the English distinction between him and her, except that French lacks an inanimate third person pronoun it or a gender neutral they and thus draws this distinction among all third person nouns, singular ...
French has a complex system of personal pronouns (analogous to English I, we, they, and so on). When compared to English, the particularities of French personal pronouns include: a T-V distinction in the second person singular (familiar tu vs. polite vous) the placement of object pronouns before the verb: « Agnès les voit.
Old French had a nominative case and an oblique case, called cas sujet and cas régime respectively. In Modern French, the two cases have mostly merged and the cas régime has survived as the sole form for the majority of nouns. For example, the word "conte (count, earl)": Old French: Nominative: li cuens (singular), li conte (plural)
The oblique case (object pronouns such as me, him, her, us), used for the direct or indirect object of a verb, for the object of a preposition, for an absolute disjunct, and sometimes for the complement of a copula. The genitive case (possessive pronouns such as my/mine, his, her/hers, our/ours), used for a grammatical possessor.
Third-person direct-object pronoun (le, la, les) Third-person indirect-object pronoun (lui or leur) The pronoun y; The pronoun en; Finite verb (may be an auxiliary) Adverbial(s) (second marker for negation) The pronouns pas, rien, personne, aucun.e, peu, que (if not subject) Main verb (if the finite verb is an auxiliary) Adverbial(s) Direct object
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However, personal pronouns remain gendered (masculine hij versus feminine zij). There have been different proposals in Dutch to broaden the use of gender-neutral pronouns. Most notably, the pronoun die or hen (direct object form: hen or die, indirect object form: hun or die, possessive form: hun or diens) started gaining traction around 2016.