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[long dune]

Basically, in short, "toi" is "you" and "tu" is "you are"

[rain citrus]

nominative and other cases basically

[atomic crown]

Tu c’est pour conjuguer avec un verbe et toi c’est pour désigner

[long dune]

but tu can't just be used by itself, it has to have something next to it

[karmic hatch]

so cant i use it like

-who did it?
+you (toi)

oh wait

tu is you are

[long dune]

No, because tu is used to be conjugated

[karmic hatch]

can i say something like this

[long dune]

and to be with a verb

[long dune]

yes

If you just want to say you

then it's toi

if you want to say like you are pretty, you won't say toi es belle, it's tu es belle

[karmic hatch]

like tu vas me détruire

[long dune]

yes

toi is literally just used to point at someone and say "YOUUUU"

[rain citrus]

that's quite an interesting description of the nominative case

[long dune]

I ain't a french teacher man

[tender mica]

conjugations only work for nouns
tu is not a conjugation

[long dune]

I'm just native and I'm dyslexic give me a chance 😔

[karmic hatch]

okay okay i get it

[long dune]

I blame this man tho

[tender mica]

tu is a subject pronoun (like je, il, elle, on, nous, vous, ils, and elles)

[rain citrus]

no, you explained it well and understandable for a normal person

that maybe is a better answer if the person isn't really familiar i guess

[tender mica]

toi is an object or tonic pronoun

this page summarizes all the personal pronouns in French and their uses: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/personal-pronouns/

[karmic hatch]

okay ill check it

[karmic hatch]

cant i just say tu belle

[tender mica]

you should check that out (make sure to click the purple links to other articles!) and ask follow-up questions if you have any

[rain citrus]

basically toi is dative, right @tender mica ?

[atomic crown]

?

[karmic hatch]

okay i found a turkish source explaining it

thanks for the help everyone

[tender mica]

no, it's used for more than just dative case

[rain citrus]

yeah actually that's true but mostly it is

[karmic hatch]

can i say je es belle

to say im beautiful

or moi es bele

[rain citrus]

suis

[karmic hatch]

oh yeah i forgot it

je suis belle or moi suis belle

okay i get it

so es,suis are like am is are in english?

[rain citrus]

as these other guys have said you should use the nominative form when you are the subject

[karmic hatch]

ye ye i get it

[karmic hatch]

is this correct

[tender mica]

I mean... no
one of the uses of toi can be dative (and really it should be à toi)
the thing is, generally people don't refer to grammatical cases in French because only pronouns have case in French

[tender mica]

more or less
the different forms of the verb être (suis, es, est, sommes, êtes, and sont – in the present tense) are called conjugations

[rain citrus]

that is very based imo, so what are the other use cases?

[tender mica]

of toi?
they're listed on the link that I gave earlier

[rain citrus]

Idk i don't really see them as anything so distant from dative except the "Toi, tu dois partir !" usage

[tender mica]

ok