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The following French tutorial was written by a soon to be graduate student in linguistics named Jennifer Wagner, who runs a fantastic website called Indo-European Languages - ielanguages.com. We thank her for generously allowing us to post her work here!

6. French Subject Pronouns

Subject Pronouns in French
Je

zhuh

I Nous

noo

We
Tu

tew

You (informal) Vous

voo

You (formal and plural)
Il
Elle
On

eel
ell
ohn

He
She
One
Ils
Elles

eel
ell

They (masc.)
They (fem.)

Note:  Il and elle can also mean it when they replace a noun (il replaces masculine nouns, and elle replaces feminine nouns) instead of a person's name.  Ils and elles can replace plural nouns as well in the same way.  Notice there are two ways to say you.  Tu is used when speaking to children, animals, or close friends and relativs.  Vous is used when speaking to more than one person, or to someone you don't know or who is older.  On can be translated into English as one, the people, we, they, or you.

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