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In French, pronouns can be inflected to indicate their role in a clause (subject, direct object, etc.), as well as the person, gender, and number of their referent. Not all of these inflections may be present at once; for example, the relative pronoun que (that, which, whom) may have any referent, while the possessive pronoun le mien ( mine ...
The relative pronoun used depends on its grammatical role (such as subject or direct object) within the relative clause, as well as on the gender and number of the antecedent and whether the antecedent represents a person. Further, like English, French distinguishes between ordinary relative clauses (which serve as adjectives) and other types.
French has a T-V distinction in the second person singular. That is, it uses two different sets of pronouns: tu and vous and their various forms. The usage of tu and vous depends on the kind of relationship (formal or informal) that exists between the speaker and the person with whom they are speaking and the age differences between these subjects. [1]
The consonant [t] is obligatorily realized between the finite verb and a vowel-initial subject pronoun (il(s), elle(s) or on) in inversion constructions. Orthographically, the two words are joined by a hyphen, or by -t- if the verb does not end in -t or -d :
A parallel example is provided by the object suffixes of verbs in Arabic, which correspond to object pronouns, and which also inflect for gender in the second person (though not in the first): "I love you", said to a male: uḥibbuka (أُحِبُّكَ) "I love you", said to a female: uḥibbuki (أُحِبُّكِ)
The ASL verb for "see" (V handshape), moves from the subject to the object. In the case of a third person subject, it goes from a location indexed to the subject to the object, and vice versa. Also, in German Sign Language not all verbs are capable of subject/object verb agreement, so an auxiliary verb is used to convey this, carrying the ...
Two people are dead after a plane crashed into a building near the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, according to reports. At around 3 p.m. local time on Tuesday, a small plane ...
Reciprocal voice (subject and object perform the verbal action to each other, e.g., She and I cut each other's hair) Reflexive voice (the subject and the object of the verb are the same, as in I see myself (in the mirror)) A particular language may use the same construction for several voices, such as the same form for passive and reflexive. [38]