que

[young moat]

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que

[ember patio]

It's the conjunction 'that' which connects two clauses: « Les danseurs pensent » and « le public est génial ».

Conjunctions and some other parts of speech like this can sometimes be dropped in English (I think you're wrong instead of I think that you're wrong) but in French it's mandatory (Je pense que tu as tort, never just je pense tu as tort)

[alpine jungle]

Strictly speaking I think the que here is a relative pronoun since the second clause is acting as the object of the verb penser

And indeed in English the relative pronoun “that” can be dropped in non-restrictive clauses where it doesn’t act as a subject

[pure orbit]

got that. merci beaucoup

[alpine jungle]

@placid cobalt si t'es pas d'accord je peux savoir pourquoi ?

[placid cobalt]

It is a conjunction here and not a pronoun: it connects to clauses without standing for any substantive as a pronoun would. A pronoun that you could use in that situation could be "ce que" for instance.

[steel jungle]

i think it's just because que is used with pronouns and qui with verbs

[carmine spear]

?

no

qui and que can both act as relative pronouns in which case the distinction is between subject, qui, and object, que

but as others have pointed out only the qui in this sentence is a relative pronoun, the que is a conjunction

[steel jungle]

sorry, i meant que is used with subjects, not pronouns. my bad

[carmine spear]

no que is used with objects...

as a relative pronoun

which isn't relavent here

[steel jungle]

right, i was just watching a video about the distinction between que and qui as a relative pronouns and confused everything