Question words and pronouns in French
Three ways to ask
French asks the same question three ways, from casual to formal:
- Tu travailles où ? — by intonation alone
- Où est-ce que tu travailles ? — with est-ce que
- Où travailles-tu ? — by inverting subject and verb
All three are correct; the first is the most common in speech.
il and elle for things
Every noun has a gender, so things are il or elle too: La table ? Elle est dans la cuisine.
son, sa, ses
The possessive agrees with the thing owned, not the owner: son père is "his father" or "her father"; context tells you which.
on
In speech, on often replaces nous: On y va ? — Shall we go?
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