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Stressed pronouns with ne — que and ni — ni — ne

Stressed pronouns are used with the expressions ne ... que, and ni... ni... ne:

• Ce n'est que lui

It's only him

• Francine ne connaît qu'eux

Francine only knows them

• Pour moi, il n'y a qu'elle qui compte

For me, she's the only one who matters

• Ni moi ni lui ne saurons quoi faire

Neither I nor he will know what to do

Once you've mastered this lesson, take a look at these related pages: Possessive determiners, Omission of the article, Pronominal verbs used reflexively & Formation and Use of Adverbs.

Other Lessons

• Omission of plural indefinite des after the preposition de
• Direct Object Complement
• Conjugation group 3 — verbs with infinitives which end in —re
• Non specific use of y
• Verb agreement with fractions
• English and French adverb formation
• Conjugation group 3
• Intransitive verbs and auxiliary “être”
• Optional use of neutral le
• Easy way of generating the imperative mood
• Regular plurals in French
• Typical use of the definite article
• The plural indefinite article des
• "J'ai eu" or "j'avais"
• Collective nouns