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Ceci and cela correspond roughly to English "this" and "that", respectively. Ça is a truncated form of cela, used in standard spoken contexts. Unlike English this, French ceci is quite rare; its most common use is in writing, to refer to something that is about to be mentioned: « Ceci est le problème : il boit trop. » ("This is the problem ...
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 grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that of the other Romance languages. French is a moderately inflected language. Nouns and most pronouns are inflected for number (singular or plural, though in most nouns the plural is pronounced ...
The pronouns ceci, cela, and ça The conditions under which these pronouns should be used in preference to celui, celle etc could usefully be clarified. I attempted to briefly summarise section 173 of H.Ferrar's "A French Reference Grammar", but apparently not to everyone's satisfaction.
Iel (pronoun) Iel is a neopronoun in the French language intended as an alternative to the gender-specific pronouns elle (" she ") and il (" he "). [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] It has been adopted by the Le Robert dictionary but is not officially accepted by the Académie Française. [ 4 ]
Quebec French syntax. There are increasing differences between the syntax used in spoken Quebec French and the syntax of other regional dialects of French. [1] In French-speaking Canada, however, the characteristic differences of Quebec French syntax are not considered standard despite their high frequency in everyday, relaxed speech.
French has a two-way distinction, with the use of postpositions "-ci" (proximal) and "-là" (distal) as in cet homme-ci and cet homme-là, as well as the pronouns ce and cela/ça. English has an archaic but occasionally used three-way distinction of this, that, and yonder.
Neopronouns, explained. The most common third-person pronouns include “she,” “he” and “they.”. While “she” and “he” are typically used as gendered pronouns to refer to a woman ...