french pronom help

Well, it sounds like franglais to me, but yeah, that's correct.

Les is for the subjective (nominative case), and leurs is for the objective.

Je les y ai invités. (subjective, nominative case)

But . . .

Je leurs en ai donnés. (objective, "I gave it to them")

et peut-etre (seeing as I have no accents, let alone pronouns - spelled correctly in French, of course - can't very well continue along those lines) we all investigate what the original intent of the poster was and then Francis can set us all right

I would consider Francis or Radical Edward to be the experts around here--although RE has not posted in quite a long time. However, this lady or gentleman's post was sitting around for quite a while with no response, and my French, for as poor as it may be, is still good enough to have told him or her that his or her answer is correct.

As for diacritical marks, this can be accomplished with a standard IBM-clone PC keyboard. I'm not going to go into it now, but i have mine set up so that i can quickly select French (Canada) when i want it.

Thanks a bunch guys

Re: french pronom help


Well, both the question and the answer are correct (with some small restriction). But it becomes of infrequent use.

The problem is that y is a pronoun used with different meanings. Students of French as second language usually have a hard time remembering all the situations.

So let's stick to this one : - Je les y ai en janvier.

In this case y is a pronoun used as a complément circonstanciel de lieu (locative phrase) and it is introduced by à in the question.

When do you have your parents in Tucson? - I have them there in January.

Mind that this phrase construction implies that this dialog is not taking place in Tucson. If it was, the reply would be - I have them here in January (je les ai ici en janvier).

Hey Francis, is there any semantic connection between jejeune and dejeuner?

In the pub last night, my companion said there was.

Hi, McT!

Other than jejeune (jejune) is spelt wrong, it obviously has a connection.

Jeuner means not eat. Déjeuner is the fact, because of the prefix dé, that you stop not eating.

Jejune is hence devoid of nutritive value (either physical or intellectual).

Je suis trop jeune et n'y comprendre que dalle ... :wink:

That's because you are a béjaune, Walter!

Hors-jeu, Francis!

So the English break-fast and the French dejeuner are precisely the same meaning/ sense?

Well.

Tks F

Breakfast translates more to «petit-déjeuner», I think.

Who is being a little picky this morning?

In the whole, I'd say yes.

Dé jeuner = break fast.

(For the picky, some people still write jeûner with an accent...