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velvet minnowBOT
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molten glade
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« Lequel » and its derivatives, which are « laquelle », « lesquels » and « lesquelles », are used to join two sentences together by replacing a noun accompanied by any preposition.

Par exemple...

Take these two sentences where « la poubelle » is repeated.

  • Voici la poubelle.
    -# ** ** ("Here's the trash can.")
  • On jette nos déchets dans la poubelle.
    -# ** ** ("We throw our garbage in the trash can.")

In order to join them together, we need to replace « la poubelle » in the second sentence with the relative pronoun « laquelle », since « la poubelle » is feminine and singular.

  • Voici la poubelle dans laquelle on jette nos déchets.
    -# ** ** ("Here's the trash can that we throw our trash in.")
    -# ** ** ("Here's the trash can in which we throw our trash.")

Notice that the preposition « dans » and the relative pronoun « laquelle » scoot over to the beginning of the second sentence when joining.

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If it wasn't apparent, you need to use the correct version of « lequel » that corresponds to the gender and number of what you're replacing.

  • lequel — masculine singular
  • laquelle — feminine singular
  • lesquels — masculine plural
  • lesquelles — feminine singular

Moreover, when it comes to the prepositions « à » and « de », they contract with « lequel » and its derivatives to form new words.

  • à + lequel → auquel
  • à + lesquel → auxquels
  • à + lesquelles → auxquelles
    —:—
  • de + lequel → duquel
  • de + lesquels → desquels
  • de + lesquelles → desquelles

You might have noticed that this is very similar to how the prepositions « à » and « de » contract with the definite articles « le » and « les ».

On the other hand, the relative pronoun « laquelle » does not contract with these two prepositions, meaning that it remains as « à laquelle » and « de laquelle ».

fallow apex
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would "les boites sont ici, dans lesquels je mets mes affaires" be correctly used?

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and is it only used in situations where I want to say "in which" or "on which"?

molten glade
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The correct way is « Les boîtes dans lesquelles je mets mes affaires sont ici. »

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If we deconstruct this into two sentences, it would be like this:

  • Les boîtes sont ici.
  • Je mets mes affaires dans les boîtes.

As you can see, we replaced « les boîtes » with « lesquelles » in the second sentence.

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Do you get it?

fallow apex
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so it's literally "the boxes in which I put my stuff"

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I think I get that

molten glade
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Yep

fallow apex
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so it's "in which" / "on which" etc?

molten glade
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Also, that isn't the only way to translate it.
You could also say "The boxes that I put my stuff in..."

fallow apex
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ah

molten glade
fallow apex
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thank you