#atrytone4athena

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unreal lanternBOT
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umbral nexus
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The first will be a tonic pronoun as it isn't connected to anything
The second will be a subject pronoun as it is connected to the verb

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Each subject pronoun has a corresponding tonic pronoun

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Je => moi
Tu => toi
Il => lui
Elle => elle
Nous => nous
Vous => vous
Ils => eux
Elles => elles

proper cave
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Thank you so much!!! Umm does this thing has equivalent in english?😅

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I mean tonic pronouns

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proper cave
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Actually i tried to ask for an english sample sentence about the tonic pronouns to understand this term better. But thanks a lot anyways!!!☺️ (english is my second language so i made the question unclear sorry)

umbral nexus
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English doesn't use them as often in this way, but it would be the same structure
Me, I go to the store on Thursdays

slim pollen
# proper cave Actually i tried to ask for an english sample sentence about the tonic pronouns ...

AFAIK English doesn't use them in this way because English has prosodic stress for emphasis like in these two examples:
'I know her' vs 'I know her'
Where you accentuate the part you want to stress. French doesn't have this – its stress rests at the end of a noun group – so French instead duplicates and rewords things to emphasise. To translate them into French, we can go:
(1) I know her
-> C'est moi qui la connais.
-> Moi, je la connais.
-> Je la connais, moi.
(2) I know her
-> C'est elle que je connais.
-> Elle, je la connais.
-> Je la connais, elle.

As albatros said a similar structure exists but is rarely used at least compared to French.
'Her, I know.'
'I'm the one who knows her.'
… something like that.

umbral nexus
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I'm not sure I'd say it's rare, but in comparison to French yeah

proper cave