#el_esqueleto_espanol_legendario
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Context
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If all you have is that one extract, then you'll never know for sure.
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« Salut, tu as vu Marie ?
– Marie ? Non, pourquoi ?
– **Elle mange une orange ** !
– Du coup… ?
– Le médecin lui a dit de pas le faire, putain ! »
As you can see here, the sentence makes it pretty clear it's talking about one person, Marie, so it's « elle ». « lui » here stands for « à elle (to her) ». If it had been plural (as in we're talking about multiple women), it would've been « le médecin leur a dit »
In other cases, French has this phenomenon where it stresses/emphasises a noun by repeating it in its pronoun form.
« Salut, tu les as vues, Marie et Jeanne ?
– Non, pourquoi ?
– Les filles, elles mangent une orange !
– Du coup… ?
– Le médecin leur a dit de pas le faire, putain ! »
supple rune
Thank you
cerulean cradle
As you can see, you can tell
supple rune
Though i hoped there was a clearer way
cerulean cradle
There isn't sorry
supple rune
Merci beaucoup
cerulean cradle
I will add though that, at least in the present tense, this only concerns the first group of conjugations
so you're not going to have issues with the other groups
supple rune
You mean other tenses are more clear
cerulean cradle
By the time you move to the imperfect, you will have already adjusted to the system so you'll do fine
cerulean cradle
You mean other tenses are more clear
The imperfect and the conditional present aren't
but that's for later waaaaaaay down the line
supple rune
I will worry about it later then 😅
cerulean cradle
The other groups don't have this issue (exceptions excluded):
2nd conjugation (-ir): Il finit / Ils finissent | Il dort / Ils dorment | Il vient / Ils viennent
3rd conjugation (-re): Il rend / Ils rendent | Il conduit / Ils conduisent | Il atteint / Ils atteignent
Irregulars (-oir): Il peut / Ils peuvent | Il sait / Ils savent | Il reçoit / Ils reçoivent
Being comfortable with relying on context will do wonders