"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
05/18/2015 at 16:19 • Filed to: French, Grammar
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
05/18/2015 at 16:19 • Filed to: French, Grammar | 0
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Voici un Scirocco
Here is a Scirocco
Il est une voiture du Portugal
He is a (feminine) car from Portugal
Mais a la meme fois
But at the same time
Il est un coupé
He is a (masculine) coupé
No, don’t ask me.
(Yes, they are made in Portugal)
ttyymmnn
> Cé hé sin
05/18/2015 at 16:21 |
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I’m pretty sure that “il” can also be “it”.
It is a car from Portugal.
It is a coupé.
I’m so glad that English (generally) doesn’t have to worry about gender-specific articles.
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Cé hé sin
> ttyymmnn
05/18/2015 at 16:25 |
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Yes, but I was just stressing the point.
La Golf
Le Scirocco but la voiture
Le Touran
La Passat
Coupés are boys, anything crossover or SUV inclined is too. Weird.
Hungarian is totally free of gender.
It makes up for that simplification elsewhere...
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ttyymmnn
> Cé hé sin
05/18/2015 at 16:45 |
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It makes up for that simplification elsewhere...
LOL
Axial
> Cé hé sin
05/18/2015 at 18:07 |
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Is it ‘il’ or ‘elle’ in “Il est une voiture du Portugal”? It seems like it should be the latter, since the object being referred to by the pronoun in that sentence is feminine. Or is the pronoun masculine because it refers back to ‘Scirocco’, which is assumed to also be masculine?
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Cé hé sin
> Axial
05/18/2015 at 18:16 |
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I was wondering but it’s definitely “Le Scirocco” on volkswagen.fr so logically it follows that “il est une voiture”. Logic and the French language don’t necessarily have anything to do with one another of course..
Mind you, a French minister who happens to be a woman would be addressed as Madame le Ministre although some have insisted on la Ministre.
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Axial
> Cé hé sin
05/18/2015 at 21:42 |
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In that example, I believe “le Ministre” is referring to the position, which is a masculine object.
There’s always logic to French, they just make it hard to decipher and they won’t tell you if you ask. :p
Fun fact of the day: my mother is French. I don’t mean French heritage, I mean actually grew up in and moved here from France.
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> ttyymmnn
05/19/2015 at 06:27 |
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Learn Chinese, you don’t even need to worry about tenses! Just learn 12,000 words so that you can effectively read and understand newspapers!