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 /j-o/
   • You (familiar) : tu
     • Pronounced as just /tu/
   • You (normal polite) : Lei
     • Pronounced as /le-i/
     • Notice it is always capitalised in writting.
     • Verbs using this also come similare to verbs for the third person lei.
   • He : egli (becoming obsolete).
     • Pronounced as /eʎ-ʎi/
     • Is used only for emphasise and advanced learner.
   • He: Il
     • Pronounced as /i-l/
   • He: esso (common for male human and masculine nouns).
     • Pronounced as /es-so/
   • She: ella (becoming obsolete).
     • Pronounced as /el-la/
   • She: elle
     • Pronounced as /le-i/
   • She: essa (common for female human and feminine nouns).
     • Pronounced as /es-sa/
2. Plural
   • We : noi
     • Pronounced as /no-i/
   • You (familiar) : voi
     • Pronounced as /vo-i/
     • This is becomming more dominant in all modern occasions
   • You (very polite, informal): Loro
     • Pronounced as /lo-ro/
     • Notice it is always capitalised in writting.
     • Verbs using this also come similare to verbs for the third person loro.
   • They : loro (for humans only).
     • Pronounced as /lo-ro/
   • They : essi (common for male human and masculine nouns).
     • Pronounced as /es-si/
   • They : esse (common for female human and feminine nouns).
     • Pronounced as /es-se/