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  2. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    What the French call complément d'objet indirect is a complement introduced by an essentially void à or de (at least in the case of a noun) required by some particular, otherwise intransitive, verbs: e.g. Les cambrioleurs ont profité de mon absence 'the robbers took advantage of my absence' — but the essentially synonymous les cambrioleurs ...

  3. French personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the sentence « J'ai parlé à Jean » ("I spoke to Jean"), Jean is the indirect object in the French sentence. Indirect-object pronouns (or dative pronouns) generally only replace indirect objects with the preposition à. When an indirect object pronoun is used, it replaces the entire prepositional phrase; for example, « Je ...

  4. Object pronoun - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. Object pronouns contrast with subject pronouns. Object pronouns in English take the objective case, sometimes called the oblique case or object case. [1]

  5. French pronouns - Wikipedia

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    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. » ("Agnès sees them.") the existence of distinct pronouns for indirect objects and for certain prepositional objects

  6. Relative clause - Wikipedia

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    The system of relative pronouns in French is as complicated as, [citation needed] but similar in many ways to, the system in English. When the pronoun is to act as the direct object of the relative clause, que is generally used, although lequel, which is inflected for grammatical gender and number, is sometimes used in order to give more ...

  7. Pronoun - Wikipedia

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    Direct and indirect object pronouns, such as le and lui in French. English uses the same form for both; for example: Mary loves him (direct object); Mary sent him a letter (indirect object). Prepositional pronouns, used after a preposition. English uses ordinary object pronouns here: Mary looked at him.

  8. Puzzle solutions for Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024

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    "The object of the roles I played is not to turn your stomach − but merely to make your hair stand on end." − Boris Karloff ... Online Crossword & Sudoku Puzzle Answers for 11/30/2024 - USA ...

  9. Polypersonal agreement - Wikipedia

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    Basque is a language isolate with a polypersonal verbal system comprising two sub-types of verbs, synthetic and analytical. The following three cases are cross-referenced on the verb: the absolutive (the case for the subject of intransitive verbs and the direct objects of transitive verbs), the ergative (the case for the subject of transitive verbs), and the dative (the case for the indirect ...