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Transcript
Direct and Indirect Object
Pronouns in French
What are they?
• These are the replacement words we
use instead of naming things - “I see
Jane” becomes “I see her”, “we eat
cake” becomes “we eat it”
• In English pronouns come after the verb
- They read the books/ they read them
In French, pronouns come
BEFORE the verb
This includes...
• Present tense
• future tense
• perfect tense
• imperfect tense
Chart to Show Order of
Pronouns
(To) me/
you/ us
Him/her/
it/them
me
te
nous
vous
le
la
les
l'
To him/to
her/to
them
lui
leur
There/
About
y
Some/any/
of it/of
them
en
When using more than one
pronoun in a sentence they will
ALWAYS go in this order
What’s the difference?
• Indirect means ‘when there IS someone or
something in the way’, usually indicated by
the word or sense of TO
• So - “he talks to me” is “il me parle”
Il me parle
What’s the difference?
• Direct literally
means ‘when there’s
no-one or nothing in
the way’
• So - he sees me is
il me voit
Il me voit
You can best tell the
difference...
• With words for him, her, them…
• Je parle à mes amis =
je leur parle
• Je donne le livre à Jean=
je lui donne le livre
• in many other cases, the choice of
pronoun will look the same
Des exemples
le
Je lis le livre: je……..lis
la
tu manges la pomme: tu…….manges
la
il regarde la télé: il……….regarde
nous attendons les vacances:
les
nous …….attendons
l’
• elles aiment Henri: elles……..aiment
•
•
•
•
Examples with two pronouns
in the present tense
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Nous achetons des bonbons au cinéma
Ses amis racontent l’histoire à Murielle
Elle donne le message à Franck
Nous recevons la livraison à l’entrepôt
vous envoyez les produits au client
tu réserves la chambre à l’hôtel
Je parle à Jean du film
Examples with two pronouns
in the present tense
•
•
•
•
•
•
Nous
Ses amis
Elle
Nous
vous
tu
Je
les y
la lui
le lui
l’y
les lui
l’y
lui en
achetons
racontent
donne
recevons
envoyez
réserves
parle
Examples with the passé
composé
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
il a parlé du projet (à moi)
nous avons considéré (sa candidature)
ils ont renvoyé (le colis)
elles ont acheté (les valises)
tu as reçu (son email)?
Vous avez répondu à M’sieur Dumare?
J’ai dit non (à la demande de Julie)
Examples with the passé
composé
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
il m’
nous
l’
ils
l’
les
elles
l’
tu
lui
Vous
lui
Je
a parlé du projet
avons considéré
ont renvoyé
ont acheté
as reçu
avez répondu?
ai dit non
Pronouns and negatives
Direct and indirect object pronouns go
before the verb when the phrase is
negative and the ne…pas or other
negative term wraps round je ne l’aime pas
il ne la voit pas
nous ne les achetons plus
ils ne le livrent jamais
Pronouns with two verbs
• You can see when to use this format in
the following examples:
• vous voulez le voir?
• Tu dois lui téléphoner
• elle ne peut pas vous parler
• il a voulu me rencontrer
• nous avons décidé d’y aller
So, to recap
Direct and indirect object pronouns…
• replace him/her/it, to him, to them etc
• go BEFORE the verb in most cases
• go IN BETWEEN the verb and infinitive
when you have two verbs
• go BEFORE the verb or auxiliary
(avoir/être in the passé composé)
P.S A word about agreement...
With direct object pronouns you
usually make the end of the verb in the
past tense agree…
for example
j’ai vu les filles
je les ai vues
with indirect object pronouns you do
not need to worry