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dense belfry
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Nous
First person plural 'We'.

Vous
Second person plural 'You'/formal 'You'

On
Third person singular (like he/she). Similar to the pronoun 'one' in English: 'One does <thing>'. Often used in place of 'nous' when talking about a non-specific group.
People like to eat/one likes to eat.
On aime manger.

mild briar
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Ahh thank you

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So "on" is just replacing he/she?

dense belfry
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Yes; it's the same type of pronoun and therefore is conjugated identically to 'he' and 'she'.

lament merlin
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It's not a "replacement" for it though

mild briar
dense belfry
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Just as 'he' does not replace 'she' (or vice-versa). It's simply another form of the third person singular.

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As such, I think I misunderstood your question there.

lament merlin
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This is a pretty good explanation from what I can tell from skimming through

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It's a bit complicated to learn all of the usages at first since English has sooo many different ways to express it that pretty much always overlap with other things, but it's very useful once you get the hang of it

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Probably most common translations:
We, you, [passive voice], they, one

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"you" being generic "you", when you're (lol) not actually referring to the person you're speaking to

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Such as in that sentence missydoge