How to Learn Pronouns in French

There are several approaches to learning a foreign language. All with both success and failure depending on the previous pedagogy of the learner. One method is learning important chunks of that language. Here you might be interested in learning pronouns of French language, through this How to.

Steps

Preliminaries

1. Learn French pronounciation. It is recommended to learn French pronunciation at How to Pronounce French Words
2. Learn these French words.
   • Pronoun : pronom (/pro-nom/)
   • Subject : la sujet (/su-jeh/)
   • Subjective : sujetive (/su-jeh/-tiv)
   • Object : objet (/ob-je/)
   • Objective : objetive (/ob-jeh-tiv/)
   • Direct Objective : objetive direct (/di-reh/)
   • Indirect : indiretto (/in-di-ret/)
   • Double : double (/dubl/)
   • Reflexive : réfléchi(/reh-fle-shi/)
   • Relative : relativ (/re-la-tiv/)
   • Possessive : possessive(/pos-ses-siv/)
   • Adjective : adjective(/ajeh-tiv/)
3. Avoid second person singular. A foreign learner should never use a second person singular such as tu, ton, and so on, until he is very comfortable in using French. It could be insulting.
4. French pronouns come in following sections

Subjective Pronouns

1. Learn in Frenchit is called, pronom sujetive. They appear as the subject (sujeh) of the sentence.

1. Singular
   • I : je
     • Pronounced as /zho/
   • You (familiar informal) : tu
     • Pronounced as just /too/
   • He: Il
     • Pronounced as /ill/
   • She: elle
     • Pronounced as /ell/
   • One: on (common for female human and feminine nouns).
     • Pronounced as /bone/
2. Plural
   • We : nous
     • Pronounced as /noo/
   • You (familiar) : vous
     • Pronounced as /voo/
   • They : ils (common for male human and masculine nouns).
     • Pronounced as /ill/
   • They : elles (common for female human and feminine nouns).
     • Pronounced as /ell/

Possessive Adjectives

1. Learn in Italian it is called, possessivo aggettivo.
2. Learn usage. They modify a noun (nome) to show its owner.
   • Owner could be human or anything.
   • Possessed item could be human or anything.
3. Grammatically they agree in gender and singular/plural with the possessed item not the owner of that item. For example,
   • In English they say "My book" and in plural again "My books", but in Italian it is said, "il mio libro" and "i miei libri", respectively.
   • In English they say "His book" and in feminine it changes to "Her book", but in Italian it is said, "il suo libro" and " il suo libro", respectively; both masculine since libro is a masculine (maschile) noun.
4. Learn possessivo aggettivo for singolare maschile possessed items.
   • Usually the definite articles 'il' modifies them.
   • mio: il mio libro
   • tuo: il tuo libro
   • Suo: il Suo libro (polite singular second person).
   • suo: il suo libro
   • nostro: il nostro libro
   • vostro: il vostro libro
   • Loro: il Loro libro (polite plural second person).
   • loro: il loro libro
5. Learn possessivo aggettivo for plurale maschile possessed items.
   • Usually the definite articles 'i' modifies them.
   • miei: i miei libri
   • tuoi: i tuoi libri
   • Suoi: i Suoi libri (polite singular second person).
   • suoi: i suoi libri
   • nostri: i nostri libri
   • vostri: i vostri libri
   • Loro: i Loro libri (polite plural second person).
   • loro: i loro libri
6. Learn possessivo aggettivo for singolare femminile possessed items.
   • Usually the definite articles 'la' modifies them.
   • mia: la mia penna
   • tua: la tua penna
   • Sua: la Sua penna (polite singular second person).
   • sua: la sua penna
   • nostra: la nostra penna
   • vostra: la vostra penna
   • Loro: la Loro penna (polite plural second person).
   • loro: la loro penna
7. Learn possessivo aggettivo for plural femminile possessed items.
   • Usually the definite articles 'le' modifies them.
   • mie: le mie penne
   • tue: le tue penne
   • Sue: le Sue penne (polite singular second person).
   • sue: le sue penne
   • nostre: le nostre penne
   • vostre: le vostre penne
   • Loro: le Loro penne (polite plural second person).
   • loro: le loro penne
8. Note that loro and Loro never changed. All other possessive adjectives changed according to the number and gender of the modified nouns except loro and Loro