Language/French/Grammar/Relative-pronouns
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Relative pronouns : lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles
The relative pronouns "lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles" can be used as subjects or direct objects.
They're also used after the following prepositions : sur, sous, avec, sans, pour, dans, chez, par...
After a preposition, the relative pronoun agrees in gender and number with the noun to which it relates. As subject, agreement (singular or plural) depends on the sense of the sentence.
Note :
- duquel, desquels, desquelles are contractions of de + lequel, de + lesquels, de + lesquelles
- auquel, auxquels, auxquelles are contractions of à + lequel, à + lesquels, à + lesquelles
Summary table[edit | edit source]
Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | |
lequel | laquelle | lesquels | lesquelles | |
à + | auquel | à laquelle | auxquels | auxquelles |
de + | duquel | de laquelle | desquels | desquelles |
Examples[edit | edit source]
- Parmi ces objets, lequel choisissez-vous ? (lit. : Among these objects, which one do you choose ?)
- Les toiles accrochées au mur sont jolies. Lesquelles avez-vous peintes ? (lit. : The paintings on the wall are pretty. Which ones did you paint ?)
- La table sur laquelle est posé le livre (lit. : The table on which the book lies)
- Le chanteur auquel (à lequel) je pense est français (lit. : The singer of which I'm thinking ==> The singer I'm thinking of is french)
- Les fleurs ? Je ne sais pas desquelles (de lesquelles) tu parles (lit. : Flowers ? I don't know which ones you're talking about)
- Les documents auxquels (à lesquels) je fais référence sont sur le bureau (lit. : The documents to which I'm referring ==> The documents I'm referring to are on the desk)
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- Gender of Nouns Names of ships and restaurants
- Easy way of generating the imperfect tense
- Ordinal numbers
- Adjectives modified by adverbs and prepositional phrases
- Relative Clause
- Absolute use of the superlative
- Verbs with personal subject used impersonally
- Non specific use of y
- Mass versus count nouns
- Agreement of the past participle when using “avoir” with a preceding direct object