Pronoms
Accentués
Stressed Pronouns
Pronouns
 First of all, let’s take a look at words in French.
 There are two kinds of words. Le words and La words.
 The La words can be replaced by “elle”
 The Le words can be replaced by “il”
Pronouns
 Les words
 Les words are more than one “le” word or “la” word
 Le pupitre+ another le pupitre= les pupitres
 La chaise + another la chaise = les chaises
 Notice when there’s only one, its still a le or la word. Be
sure you know which one is a le word when there’s only
one and which one is a la word when there’s only one.
Les Words
 Les words can be replaced by ‘ils’ or ‘elles’
 Ils is if the word is originally a le word
 Elles is if the word is originally a la word
What If You have a Le
word and a la word
together??
 Le pupitre+ la porte would be replaced by “ils”
 Le garcon + la fille would be replaced by “ils”
A few more
 If you are talking about yourself or if you see a
“moi,” replace it with “je”
 If you are talking about you and someone else (we) or
if you see an “et moi,” You are going to use “nous”
 If you are talking about someone else and the person
you are talking about “you guys,” you use “vous”
 A second way to see “we “ is “on”
Now that we know how to
replace words
 What happens if it is at the end of the sentence?
 Richard and I
 Monique and you
 Jérome and us
 Dominique and you guys
 Marc, Mélissa, and them
JE
 In english, you notice that the first sentence is not
« Richard and me. »
 We change it to « Richard and I »
 The same thing happens in French.
 In stead of « Richard et Je » - THIS DOES NOT
WORK IN FRENCH
 It becomes « Richard et MOI »
Tu
 In english, you do not say « Richard and you, » but
« you and Richard. » If you say it the other way, it
sounds wrong.
 In French, we do not say « Richard et tu. » NEVER
SAY THIS TO A FRENCH PERSON
 We say « Richard et toi »
 Tu becomes toi
IL/ELLE
 In english, we do not say « Richard and he » or
« Richard and she »
 We say « Richard and him » or « Richard and her »
 In French, we do the same. If Il/ elle is not followed
by a verb (at this point, we will only be dealing with
etre), it becomes LUI
 Richard and lui (Richard and him)
 Nous stays the same
 Vous stays the same
Ils/ Elles
 In english, we do not say « I and they »
 It is « I and them »
 In French, we use eux instead of ils or elles
 « Je et eux »
Write these out
 Richard and I
 Joe and you
 They(le) and him
 You (pl) and her
 Me and they (le)
 You and they (la)
How do you use this
Stressed Pronouns can be
used when
 You want to emphasize something
 I, I want ice cream
 Moi, Je veux de la glace
 If you’re talking about something after these words:
sous, sur, dans, devant, derrière, et, à coté de, près de
(near), loin de (far from), à (at/to), and de (from).
Take a marker board
 The first person to correctly translate the following
expressions into French on their marker board and
hold it up gets class money.
 Luc is next to her
 Matthew and I
 Richard and them (la)
 Joe is behind her
 Nichole is in front of you
 Kim is next to them.
 Marie is near me
 Paul is far from me
 The stapler is in front of him
 The pens are behind them
 The chair is behind you
Let’s Add on Another
Piece
 The blue chair is in front of you
 The short boy is next to him.
 The green pencil case is far from me
 The blond girl is behind me.
 The selfish sister is behind him
The french friend (le) is under it (le).
 The red school is far from her.
 The energetic student is close to me
 The american boy is next to you (pl).
 The funny student is behind them
 The popular middle school is behind them.