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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: the placement of object pronouns before the verb: « Agnès les voit. » ("Agnès sees them.") the use of a distinct disjunctive form, e.g. for emphasis (moi, toi, etc.).
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]
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 ...
In the centuries following the Norman conquest, English was written mainly by Norman scribes. Thus, French spelling conventions had a great effect on the developing English orthography. Innovations that then arose include the following: [18] "qu-" instead of "cw-" (queen) "gh" instead of "h" (night) "ch" or "cch" instead of "c" (church)
Latin document of 1249–50 issued by Henry III of England; he uses the phrase Mandamus vobis ("We command you"). The royal we, majestic plural (pluralis majestatis), or royal plural, is the use of a plural pronoun (or corresponding plural -inflected verb forms) used by a single person who is a monarch or holds a high office to refer to themselves.
Main articles: French conjugation and French verb morphology. French verbs are conjugated by isolating the stem of the verb and adding an ending. In the first and second conjugation, the stem is easily identifiable from the infinitive, and remains essentially constant throughout the paradigm. For example, the stem of parler ("speak") is parl ...
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 ]
Personal pronoun. Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it). Personal pronouns may also take different forms depending on number (usually singular or plural), grammatical or natural gender, case, and formality.