#En. / Fr. Shortening of phrases

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wild wadi
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In English, we say “Love you” as a shortening of “I love you”. Does french do the same with « Je t’aime » to something like « T’aime »?

steady moat
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no

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english can often skip the subject colloquially
french can't

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yk the same goes for "told you" for example

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but you can skip the e in je

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that's why you hear chuis all the time

clear coyote
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My gf says this all the time, but only in writing as far as I can recall

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It's a much more marked way of speaking than in English though

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One of her most common things to do is drop the subject, and I've taken the habit
But it gives a very specific feeling to your sentence and a lot of people, if not most, will rarely do so

steady moat
clear coyote
steady moat
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im confused by that "than"

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maybe its the 3 am effect

clear coyote
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"more [marked way of speaking] than in English"

steady moat
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but aren't we talking about english

clear coyote
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hence "it" (in french) is more marked than in english

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ah

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misread

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no I meant my French gf says "T'aime" all the time

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much more often than "je t'aime"

steady moat
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idk about québec

clear coyote
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she's never been to quebec, she's parisian

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she omits other subjects lots, and ive seen other people do it quite frequently

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more from people from france but probably because I speak to them more

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it's still quite uncommon to do it as often as she does it

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but it definitely happens, even from people who rarely do

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there are certain contexts where it's especially common (before "faut", for example)

steady moat
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but not t'aime

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i'd interpret that as tu aimes

clear coyote
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yea

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I think context makes it much clearer

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as well as in writing if they're consistent abt aime vs. aimes

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but it's certainly not the most common context for someone to choose to drop the subject

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it's usually in cases where it's 100% obvious what the subject is (such as with faut/faillait)

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there's also additional omission in "[il n'est] pas question de"

steady moat