Personal pronouns or “Les pronoms personnels” are used to substitute or replace nouns. There are three kinds of personal pronouns: Personal pronouns subjects, personal pronouns objects and stressed (disjoints or toniques). In this lesson we will study the personal pronouns subjects.
Personal Subject Pronouns |
| Je | 1st person singular | I |
| Tu | 2nd person singular | You (when you’re addressing a friend, a member of your family or a child) |
| Il | 3rd person singular | He |
| Elle | 3rd person singular | She |
| On | indefinite 3rd person singular | We/They/Somebody/One |
| Nous | 1st person plural | We |
| Vous | 2nd person plural | You (when you’re addressing more than one person or an adult who is not a friend or family) |
| Ils | 3rd person plural | They (masculine only or feminine and masculine) |
| Elles | 3rd person plural | They (feminine only) |