Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns in French What

Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns in French

What is a direct object? A word or group of words that receives the direct action of the verb. So in the sentence: John likes Mary John is the subject likes is the verb Mary is the direct object

What is an indirect object? Tells for whom or to whom something is done So in the sentence: He gave me an apple. He is the subject me is the indirect object gave is the verb an apple is the direct object

What is a pronoun? • A pronoun is a replacement word. It takes the place of a noun. • I see Jane I see her • We eat cake We eat it • I wrote to Julie I wrote to her

Chart of Pronouns 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 (in French À) • 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 • • Ses amis racontent l’histoire à Murielle la lui Ses amis racontent Elle donne le message à Franck Elle donne le lui Vous envoyez les produits au client Vous envoyez les lui Je parle français à Jean le lui Je parle

Examples with the passé composé • • • il a parlé du projet (à moi) il a parlé du projet m’ nous avons considéré (sa candidature) l’ nous avons considéré e elles ont acheté (les valises) elles ont acheté es les tu as reçu (son email)? tu as reçu l’ J’ai dit non (à Julie) Je ai dit non lui

In the passé composé, the DIRECT OBJECT must AGREE with the PAST PARTICIPLE!

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 de lui parler

So, to recap on placement Direct and indirect object pronouns… • go BEFORE the verb in most cases • go BEFORE the infinitive when you have two verbs • go BEFORE the auxiliary verb (avoir/être) in the passé composé

So what is a pronoun? A word that replaces a noun

Now Commands • There are two types of commands, positive (Donnez!) and negative (Ne donnez pas!) • In negative commands, the pronouns all look the same: Ne le donnez pas! or Ne lui parlez pas! or Ne me téléphonez pas! or Ne te lave pas!

Positive Commands However, in positive commands two things change. 1. The order 2. Me and te become MOI and TOI

Practice • Make the negative commands positive: • Non, ne me téléphone pas! Téléphone-moi! • Non, ne m’attends pas! Attends-moi! • Non, ne les invitez pas! Invitez-les!

Practice • Make the positive commands negative: • Oui, prête-lui de l’argent ! Ne lui prête pas de l’argent! • Oui, achète-toi un CD! Ne t’achète pas un CD! • Oui, donnez-moi ton adresse ! Ne me donnez pas ton adresse!

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