Owen

[cosmic juniper]

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[sour copper]

Lui and eux can supplant object pronouns. Others can't.

[brittle oasis]

could u elaborate on this please

im very interested

[sour copper]

For example instead of "lui, il sait le faire" you can say "lui sait le faire",though it is rather literary.
There isn't much more to it than this.

[brittle oasis]

yeh ok but why the -même added

why not just "que lui allait autrefois chercher"

[sour copper]

It means "he himself", and in this case it can be thought of as "he too"

[brittle oasis]

yeh i understand that

its just i never seen it start a clause or phrase by itself