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    24/03/2020 French Double Pronoun Order - Lawless French Grammar

    Double Pronoun Order


    Ordre de deux pronoms compléments

    Sometimes one pronoun just isn’t enough. A sentence


    might need both a direct and indirect object, or a reflexive
    pronoun as well as an adverbial. When this happens, word
    order becomes an issue: how do you know which pronoun
    to place first? It’s actually pretty easy, once you learn the
    rules.

     Be sure you fully understand how to use each type of


    pronoun before continuing with this lesson.

    As you know, object, reflexive, and adverbial pronouns


    precede the verbs they modify in every tense and mood—
    except the affirmative imperative, when they follow it Share / Tweet / Pin Me!
    (learn more). When a verb has double pronouns, they still
    precede or follow, but the order of the two pronouns themselves also varies.

    Normal pronoun order

    In the vast majority of verb tenses and moods, the pronouns precede the verb and must be placed in this
    order:

    1   2 . . . 3   4

        me   le   lui            
    te
    Subject pronoun   se   la       y   en   conjugated verb
    nous
        vous   les   leur            

    Par exemple…

    Il me les montre.   He’s showing them to me.

    Je le lui ai donné.   I gave it to him.

    Ne la leur envoie pas.   Don’t send it to them.

    Il y en aura beaucoup.   There will be a lot of them.


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      Two pronouns is the limit. The French won’t say something like Je le lui y ai donné to mean "I gave
    it to him there"; instead, they’ll reword the sentence to remove one of the pronouns.

    Par exemple…

    Je lui y ai donné le livre.   I gave him the book there.

    Je l’y ai donné à Michel.   I gave it to Michel there.

    Je le lui ai donné à l’école.   I gave it to him at school.

    Affirmative imperative pronoun order

    In the affirmative imperative, pronouns follow the verb and are connected to it and to one another with
    hyphens, in this order: direct + indirect + y / en.

    1   2 . . . 3

    moi
        le        
    toi
    lui
    Imperative – la – –   y
    nous
    vous
        les       en
    leur

    Par exemple…

    Montre-le-moi.   Show it to me.

    Donnons-la-leur.   Let’s give it to them.

    Emmenez-les-y.   Take them there.

    Donne-m’en.   Give me some.

      Remember that moi and toi are stressed forms that can only be used when at the end of the
    command. When they precede y or en, they revert back to me and te and are therefore obliged to
    contract to m’ and t’.

       

    Quiz: Double pronoun order

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    Adverbial pronouns

    Direct object pronouns

    Indirect object pronouns

    Reflexive pronouns

    Placement of object pronouns

    Verb tenses and moods


     

    En español

    Orden de dos pronombres complementos


     

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