Once I wanted to say "No, I didn't wash them" referring to my hands. I didn't know how to do it. Later found out it was "Non, je ne me les suis pas lavées", or you can drop words and vowels to be more casual. "J'n me" - "Je me"; or even "J'm" = "Non, J'm les suis pas lavées".
This video is an absolute game changer for me. I've struggled with pronoun order for such a long time, and this just makes everything crystal clear. Of all the videos I've watched on the French language, I think this is going to be the most practically useful to me. Thanks Alex.
People who hate French: Bruh I hate French why don't I understand anything me: bro just got to You tube search French in Plain Sight. those People: who's that guy? me: He is a English guy but he is a French coach I didn't understand anything in French but now because of him I am getting 14/15 in my French tests.
TYSM Alex now I understand everything in Pronouns. Keep up the good work man. And Thank You.
With Duolingo, I've been becoming frustrated with myself for making the same order errors repeatedly until the mistake is becoming fossilised = BAD news. Then with Duo, I only get the one correct response chance to relearn the Right way = NOT enough GOOD PRACTICE! This video's explanation and diagram started to clarify some confusion. I'm really hoping this download helps me start getting a feel for the correct patterns, so it just sounds or looks right!
I like listening to your videos, not because I learn French as it is my mother tongue, but just because your English is perfectly understandable to a French 👌 and also because you've found some tricks to make French grammar eatable 😂😂 ! thank you for your patience and love for French language 🤩
Oh wow, that's so great! I actually started teaching French this (school) year, but never saw those order charts anywhere before your video, I'm so stealing that! I would suggest one thing in order to improve them, though: add "quantity" as another piece of the puzzle, because that's very useful too. It goes at the very end in all three cases, be it precise, like "cinq" or imprecise, like "assez"!
Wow, your diagram(2:37) is extremely helpful! Just today I read a sentence "je vais vous le dire tout à l heure", and I thought: wait, this seems to contradict with the expression "je le lui donne" I learned a few days ago. Your diagram then explains the reason perfectly!
I appreciate your teaching style. I'm a retired adult educator and I can relate to the techniques you use: little role plays, learning guides, simplifying, seeing things from the beginner's point of view, etc. Plus I agree, focus on sentences you will use - and repetition, of course. This video is a real help with word order, and it's usually not explained in other French courses. .
I'll be thinking about something in French and wondering to myself "what the hell is the structure to come up with that?" or "how do I even specifically find the answer to that question", and BOOM. Your videos pop up on my recommendations, showing me how to do it. Merci mille fois Alex !
Thank you soooo much ! I have my exams coming up and now I don't learn french because of school I now do it because I'm now passionate about it. I've been improving alot lately and this helps more than you know thanks so much !:))
😣😣Ta phrase est horrible et pas français surtout, désolée ! Avant de mettre le ( l' ) il faut dire de quel sujet tu parles, puis tu pourras mettre le l', ça évite les répétitions !
I,ve always been perplexed by this while speaking French it is the most difficult and confusing part of the language you have managed to clarify it tremendously. I always managed to work my way around saying these sentences and feel like I,m cheating when I do .Thank you again !
This is really helpful! Here is my attempt: J'ai donné mon livre à Sarah --> Je le lui ai donné. J'ai besoin de partir ma maison avec Sarah dans dix minutes --> J'ai besoin d'y partir avec Sarah dans dix minutes.
Bravo ! Numéro 1: parfait. Numéro 2: is incorrect because the structure of partir is partir de quelque part. Je pars de ma maison. so, grammatically it would be J'en pars. However, to my knowledge, no one says that. They'd just say "Je pars" or "Je pars de la maison".
This is a great video, wow! Are there any rules or tips on when using lui, leur, etc in the past tense? I understand "I have not spoken to Alex" is "Je n'ai pas parlé à Alex" but when it is "I have not spoken to him" becomes "Je ne lui ai pas parlé" I get so confused.
Merci Alex, a tricky grammar point that you explain very well ! I will be watching this a few times. And merci for the download pdf on all of this, it will be very helpful too!
Thanks Alex! This is so helpful! I think it can actually be reduced to just 2 categories - pronouns always go in front of the first verb except when there is an infinitive then they go in front of the infinitive. But it is actually mentally helpful to think about it in the 3 categories to separate out all the tenses other than the simple present!
Salut Alex, mille mercis de ta vidéo. Quand j'apprennais le français à l'école en Allemagne nous appelons ton schéma la Wimpelregel (la règle du fanion ). Elle m'a vachement aidé à formuler des phrases en français. Alors, de nouveau, mille mercis pour le rappel. N'hésite pas à tourner d'intéressantes viedéos. A +
et beh purée, tu parles comme un chef ! la méthode germanique m'a assommée, enfin ma première prof (4 ans de Cruella Devil Prusse en Chanel)mais les résultats sont là ! si tu pratiques, avec netflix et le streaming, ça va rester. Clairement, t'aimes le français. "vachement", je doute que ça s'apprenne à l'école. possible. je crois que tu es venu une fois ou deux ou que tu connais des Français. ich liebe dich...nan, sans déconner, plus de guerre entre nous. Fallait les Americains pour nous botter le cul en place. mais quand je vois ton niveau de français, je suis admirative. moi,, j'ai sincèrement oublié, mais mon frère qui travaille en Suisse déploie des trésors d'imagination pour le faire croire; alors que sa femme est Suisse et qu'il est bilingue. Mais la barrière dans sa tête, c'est pas rien. Son père officiellement Allemand, mais frontalier; toute la famille ou presque a été déportée. Néanmoins, enfance en allemagne pour son père. Un jour français, un jour allemand. il a cessé tout effort en suisse trilingue; faut dire ils savent être nationalistes
Tout d'abord, merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo utile ! 🙂 Deuxièmement, je veux ajouter une autre phrase... "I want you to talk to him (over there)." 《Je te veux lui (y) parler.》ou 《Je te veux lui parler là-bas.》 Là, l'objet du verbe modal (veux) est "you". Donc, il est placé avant 《veux》, et pas 《parler》. J'espère que c'est utile aussi ! 😊 (Btw, this is my practice writing, if I may. Thank you for allowing us to also practice here.)
Merci beaucoup Hazzar. En fait, ici, on doit construire la phrase différemment qu'en anglais : « Je veux que tu lui parles là-bas. » serait la bonne phrase. Et oui, continue à pratiquer autant que tu le veux dans les commentaires.
Alex, that video was so helpful and so clear and simple, and on a topic I definitely needed help with. Thanks! I've been loving the channel for some months now and just became a member. Please keep up the great work.
Merci beaucoup ! I have just started watching your videos and found so many excellent materials for studying french. I will try to go through with all your clips. Your exlanation is so easy to follow and understand. I have been studying french by myself only through UA-cam and books. Reading will be ok but writing and speaking will be difficult as you know. However, I have been doing this way for two years. I certainly believe that your videos help and improve mon français a lot from now on.
Well. It's not easy at all to get familiar with this strange order. So instead of saying 'I told you' they say 'je t' ai dit ' which literally means' 'I you told'' and etc...
Thanks Alex. This was super useful. I had been going mental dealing with the word order of object pronouns especially with an auxiliary verb. I still find it hard to "hear" the deadly duo of "y" and "en" in rapid spoken French.
I was on a family outing and wanted to say: I saw him outside the church. At the time, I couldn't think of the words and so I Googled it later and it said: Je l'ai vu a l'exterieur de l'eglise. Can anyone explain why it is 'Je l'ai' ... and not 'Je lui ai'.
Thanks, this really helps clarify the COD and COI order confusion for me. Just to confirm, Sometimes the COD comes directly after the subject and sometimes the COI comes directly after, as in the following examples: -Je le lui ai donné(I gave it to him) -Je vous L’ai donné (I gave it to you) Can we say that There is no hard rule that either the COD or the COI comes after the subject, it depends on which COD is used? I’m guessing it’s safe to say that when the COD is “vous”or “to”, then it comes directly after the subject but in the case of “lui” being the COD it has to after the COI? This seems to correspond to your chart, I’m sorry this sounds so convoluted. Describing technical grammar always makes my head spin. Does this make sense? If so, is it correct?
I always get confused with this order because in German (when I was learning), the indirect object always comes before the direct object which is opposite to French.😕
When you use the passé composé you must think of the auxiliary and the main verb as one. Yes, avoir is a verb but in a compound tense (one with auxiliary and main verb) both parts form one, grammatically speaking. So in your case you need to know which verb introduces the object. Here it's donner so the pronoun(s) goes before donner. With that information, try and make the sentence :)
Un or mon cadeau. You're doing fine. it's almost impossible to not talk shop, well grammar/syntax at some point. With any luck and some work, you will feel things; you felt that something wasn't right in your sentence. That's very good. Le cadeau would point a known element. Remember Un/le from your beginnings; you know that. you're stretching your wings but doubting yourself. That's good. Make mistakes. Don't listen to the voice asking to slow things down. trust your gut. there are morons everywhere, but plenty of good people and thay'll sort things out. Give your best.
Hi Margaret. If you mean the cheatsheet I mentioned, you can look in the description of the video. Just below the video there's an arrow to tap (on mobile) or "show more" on desktop and the description slides down.
Merci beaucoup Alex. Really helped me out. Doubt: if you have to answer this question (by saying yes) but by replacing the nouns with pronouns, "Est-ce que Robert a rencontre cette jolie fille au bal?" , will it be "Oui, il lui y a rencontree." or "Oui, il l'a rencontree cette jolie fille au bal."? (I don't really understand the second one because we are not replacing anything with the L' but my teacher said that it was the correct answer so...)
Hello. The second one is correct because the verb rencontrer doesn't take a preposition to introduce its object. The girl is the object (only grammatically speaking). Rencontrer quelqu'un. Therefore, quelqu'un is a direct object. Direct objects are replaced by direct object pronouns. In this case : la (l'). Have you seen my video about this? ua-cam.com/video/xQqiwEEklkk/v-deo.html Hope this helps!
Je me toujour demande comment aprendre ces regles 🤣 j'en ai parlé avec mon copain qui parle francais couramment C1/2 et il m'en ai expliqué quand-meme que ca vient avec la practique. Je lui ai dit que ca m'arrive un peu dificil mais c'est vrai que quand on esseie d'en utiliser souvent c'est quand on vraiment aprend mieux. J'espere que il y a pas beaucoup des errors dans cette frase (je sais, j'utilise pas les accents 😞, mais j'esseie :)
Je me demande toujours : voir les pronoms. Et mettre les choses dans l'ordre (on apprend vraiment mieux) Gros chapitre ! Beaucoup d'erreurs mais rien de grave . ta logique est bonne et tes oreilles bien ouvertes. (Il m'a expliqué) tu manipules des choses pas simples sans avoir l'entrainement nécessaire. Ton orthographe dit beaucoup. Tu écris mal mais penses bien. Parfait. Comme tu dis, il faut travailler, s'exercer. va voir sur le site de la francophonie. FLE = Français langue étrangère. Même si tu t'arrêtais aujourd'hui, avec netflix tu peux rester dans le bain voire progresser. Faut regarder en français avec les sous-titres en français, ou sans sous-titres. ils sont là si tu en as besoin. Parfois décevants. Essaie encore.
De rien Jorge. Concernant ta question au sujet des liaisons, je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir trop compris, mais ça ne m'étonne pas parce que je n'ai pas maîtrisé les règles de liaison. À toi de me le dire !
@@FrenchinPlainSight Je pensais que peut-être les pronoms en, y, lui et leur sonnaient mieux devant les formes d'avoir que les pronoms le, la, me, te, etc?
Merci beaucoup Alex! I need a lesson on this about every 10 minutes. Perhaps the next one could be the order when you are dealing with a negation in the passé composé with a reflexive verb for good measure! Questions please: I assume that the placement of the pronoun in the Future Proche is the same as when there are two verbs in present tense?
Haha. It's a topic that will stay with you for a while, for sure. Once you start saying the most common combinations you can start to forget the rule a bit. It'll surprise you. Yes, futur proche has two independent verbs so the pronouns go between them - directly before the main verb.
Ils ne se les sont pas fait voler (leurs affaires). Ou : Ils ne s’en sont pas fait voler (de l’argent). Mais ce se sont des exemples un peu exagérés et pas très naturels 😀!
Hello Alex, I watched your video but have a query, at the end of the video you put up an example plus que parfait: Je me l'etais dit, but should it be Je me l'avais dit - also I cant find the free download you mention. Thank you
Hello Eileen. Merci pour ton commentaire! For that sentence, the presence of "me" tells us that we're using the reflexive form of the ver "dire" which is "se dire". In the present tense it's conjugated as "je me dis, tu te dis, il se dit" etc. For all reflexive verbs, when putting them in a compound tense such as the plus-que-parfait, the auxiliary verb is always Être and not Avoir. Je t'avais dit but Je m'étais dit. Je t'ai dit (passé composé) but je me suis dit. After a while it becomes automatic, but just remember that rule in the future :). For the free download, it's in the description. Sometimes you need to click "Read more" to get the full description to appear. Here's the link to save you a trip: frenchinplainsight.com/pronoun-order-mastery À bientôt !
In fact, not much: dire à quelqu'un. To say to someone. se dire = to say to oneself. Je te dis un truc = I tell you something Je me dis un truc = I tell myself something. Se dire more commonly means "to think (to oneself)/to say to onself". "Hier je me disais que ça faisait longtemps que je n'avais pas vu Sophie." = "Yesterday, I was thinking that it had been a long time since I'd seen Sophie" When comparing verbs, i recommend putting them into Reverso's Context translator to see lots of examples in context.
How can we actually speak more? There's virtually no French people in Jacksonville, Florida. We need exercises that allow us to speak at length usable sentences and phrases.
I'm pretty sure it's something like "Je vous le donne à toi et à lui". "Vous" here being for both people. But this is next level and it always stumps me so I've put it out to the Frenchies in my Instagram story!
@@CaffeAddict Same logic as above. Always follow the logic. "You and them" is a group of multiple people of which "you" is a part, therefore you use "vous" to represent all parties. "Je vais vous le donner". Then, if you want to emphasise the different parties, you add it after: "Je vais vous le donner. À vous et à eux." or if the "you" is just one person and it's informal: "Je vais vous le donner. À toi et à eux."
French Learners: "je jamais dire ça à lui" French Grammar: "je ne le lui ai jamais dit" French speakers: "juillé jamais dit" French Learners: "je parle à vous demain encore de ça" French Grammar: "je vous en reparle demain" French speakers: "chvou zenr'parl demain"
@@hackfrenchwithtom moi je comprends mais je crains que les autres apprenants trouvent ces orthographes trop pertubants ! Cela dit, il n'y a pas de moyen parfait d'expliquer ça à l'écrit à mon expérience !
A related topic is the order of pronouns in affirmative and negative commands. The order is the same as in the charts you give. Parle-m'en. Same for the negative impératif: Ne m'en parle pas, or more likely, m'en parle pas! The negative command is simply the negative present tense without the subject pronoun. Pensez-y.
That last statement is not what I meant to say concerning the negation. Should be N'y pensez pas. Pensez-y is, of course, the affirmative command. J'en ai la tête qui tourne, moi. en = de cela, because of that.
Once I wanted to say "No, I didn't wash them" referring to my hands. I didn't know how to do it. Later found out it was "Non, je ne me les suis pas lavées", or you can drop words and vowels to be more casual. "J'n me" - "Je me"; or even "J'm" = "Non, J'm les suis pas lavées".
I love that you see French grammar from a learner's perspective. Your content feels so relatable because of that. Cheers mate! Keep up the good work.
It's because I am a learner :). Happy that me sharing this has helped you out
This video is an absolute game changer for me. I've struggled with pronoun order for such a long time, and this just makes everything crystal clear. Of all the videos I've watched on the French language, I think this is going to be the most practically useful to me. Thanks Alex.
One year since I am on youtube watching french teaching videos. You are the best, my brother!God bless you!
Best explanation I've seen of this rule. Thanks for your wonderful video... much appreciated as always 😊💕
You are so welcome!
People who hate French: Bruh I hate French why don't I understand anything
me: bro just got to You tube search French in Plain Sight.
those People: who's that guy?
me: He is a English guy but he is a French coach I didn't understand anything in French but now because of him I am getting 14/15 in my French tests.
TYSM Alex now I understand everything in Pronouns. Keep up the good work man. And Thank You.
Merci, Alex! I would push "like x 10" if I could!
These videos are actually so helpful to use when learning french. Thank You!
De rien Tyler :)
With Duolingo, I've been becoming frustrated with myself for making the same order errors repeatedly until the mistake is becoming fossilised = BAD news. Then with Duo, I only get the one correct response chance to relearn the Right way = NOT enough GOOD PRACTICE! This video's explanation and diagram started to clarify some confusion. I'm really hoping this download helps me start getting a feel for the correct patterns, so it just sounds or looks right!
Great video-95% of which is super clear to me. What isn't is why one says "je te la donne" but "je le lui donne" per what I saw here?
Ceci a été le plus claire vidéo sur l'ordre de les pronoms en français. Merci beaucoup
Je t'en prie :)
merci monsieur. u explain 5 min w tat diagram for sentence structure and now all is crystal clear compare to other long winded confusing videos.
This is one of the most helpful videos ever thank you!
I like listening to your videos, not because I learn French as it is my mother tongue, but just because your English is perfectly understandable to a French 👌 and also because you've found some tricks to make French grammar eatable 😂😂 ! thank you for your patience and love for French language 🤩
My head exploded. I'll need to watch and watch and download the download. Merci Alex.
Yes this stuff doesn't get learned overnight. Hear it, use it, hear it, use it, read it, use it...
Oh wow, that's so great! I actually started teaching French this (school) year, but never saw those order charts anywhere before your video, I'm so stealing that!
I would suggest one thing in order to improve them, though: add "quantity" as another piece of the puzzle, because that's very useful too. It goes at the very end in all three cases, be it precise, like "cinq" or imprecise, like "assez"!
Youre very helpful. Please remember to give examples of all you speak about and translate ALL your examples.
Thanks. I had actually been researching trying to understand the rules when this episode aired.
You're welcome Rob
Wow, your diagram(2:37) is extremely helpful!
Just today I read a sentence "je vais vous le dire tout à l heure", and I thought: wait, this seems to contradict with the expression "je le lui donne" I learned a few days ago. Your diagram then explains the reason perfectly!
So happy to hear!
I should add that I didn't invent the diagram but I'm glad to be able to make others aware of it!
@@FrenchinPlainSight This is the first time I saw this diagram, and your explanations are so crystal clear!
I appreciate your teaching style. I'm a retired adult educator and I can relate to the techniques you use: little role plays, learning guides, simplifying, seeing things from the beginner's point of view, etc. Plus I agree, focus on sentences you will use - and repetition, of course. This video is a real help with word order, and it's usually not explained in other French courses. .
Thank you P T. I'm glad it resonates!
I'll be thinking about something in French and wondering to myself "what the hell is the structure to come up with that?" or "how do I even specifically find the answer to that question", and BOOM. Your videos pop up on my recommendations, showing me how to do it. Merci mille fois Alex !
Je suis là pour toi Ryan 😊
Thank you soooo much ! I have my exams coming up and now I don't learn french because of school I now do it because I'm now passionate about it. I've been improving alot lately and this helps more than you know thanks so much !:))
So happy to hear! Bon courage pour tes examens !
@@FrenchinPlainSight Merci! continuez à faire de telles vidéos, ça aide beaucoup ! :D
Enfin ! Quelqu’un me l’a fait clair, MERCI !
😣😣Ta phrase est horrible et pas français surtout, désolée ! Avant de mettre le ( l' ) il faut dire de quel sujet tu parles, puis tu pourras mettre le l', ça évite les répétitions !
I,ve always been perplexed by this while speaking French it is the most difficult and confusing part of the language you have managed to clarify it tremendously. I always managed to work my way around saying these sentences and feel like I,m cheating when I do .Thank you again !
More where that came from in my in depth private grammar lessons coming soon on my website Mary :)
wow thank you for being so nice and explaining everything so well
You're welcome!
Thank you for being so generous to give us access to your diagram so thank you so much Alex.
De rien Megan ! I didn't invent the diagram but hopefully made it clearer than others have.
Great teaching!
Hi from Dave in Manchester.. Thank you so much, i find your videos transformative for learning some confusing aspects of French.. So so helpful.
You're very welcome!
Very useful and clear! I now feel more confident when having to sound like I know French! Merci beaucoup!
Wonderful!
This is really helpful!
Here is my attempt:
J'ai donné mon livre à Sarah --> Je le lui ai donné.
J'ai besoin de partir ma maison avec Sarah dans dix minutes --> J'ai besoin d'y partir avec Sarah dans dix minutes.
Bravo !
Numéro 1: parfait.
Numéro 2: is incorrect because the structure of partir is partir de quelque part. Je pars de ma maison. so, grammatically it would be J'en pars. However, to my knowledge, no one says that. They'd just say "Je pars" or "Je pars de la maison".
This is a great video, wow! Are there any rules or tips on when using lui, leur, etc in the past tense? I understand "I have not spoken to Alex" is "Je n'ai pas parlé à Alex" but when it is "I have not spoken to him" becomes "Je ne lui ai pas parlé" I get so confused.
Really helpful and useful video on what can be quite a confusing subject, plus the bonus of a very useable crib sheet, thanks very much👍
Merci Alex, a tricky grammar point that you explain very well ! I will be watching this a few times. And merci for the download pdf on all of this, it will be very helpful too!
Very creative and clear.
Glad you think so!
Great explanation of pronoun placement - and great tip to practice sentences I will actually use in conversations
Good luck!
Thanks Alex! This is so helpful! I think it can actually be reduced to just 2 categories - pronouns always go in front of the first verb except when there is an infinitive then they go in front of the infinitive. But it is actually mentally helpful to think about it in the 3 categories to separate out all the tenses other than the simple present!
You're welcome!
I can no longer remember how I structured this video, but you should follow whatever makes this tricky topic clear for you :)
very well explained, i printed the diagram u made, thank u
Excellent! I hope that helps it stick :)
You are Always trying to reduce my confusion in french. Merci beaucoup. Je vous souhaite une bonne journée.
Bonne journée à toi !
My first ever post to you tube.
Merci beaucoup por votre lecon
Quel honneur pour moi ! Merci beaucoup David et continue le bon travail !
Salut Alex, mille mercis de ta vidéo. Quand j'apprennais le français à l'école en Allemagne nous appelons ton schéma la Wimpelregel (la règle du fanion ). Elle m'a vachement aidé à formuler des phrases en français. Alors,
de nouveau, mille mercis pour le rappel. N'hésite pas à tourner d'intéressantes viedéos. A +
Wimpelregel! Merci beaucoup pour ce joli mot allemand !
et beh purée, tu parles comme un chef ! la méthode germanique m'a assommée, enfin ma première prof (4 ans de Cruella Devil Prusse en Chanel)mais les résultats sont là ! si tu pratiques, avec netflix et le streaming, ça va rester. Clairement, t'aimes le français. "vachement", je doute que ça s'apprenne à l'école. possible. je crois que tu es venu une fois ou deux ou que tu connais des Français. ich liebe dich...nan, sans déconner, plus de guerre entre nous. Fallait les Americains pour nous botter le cul en place. mais quand je vois ton niveau de français, je suis admirative. moi,, j'ai sincèrement oublié, mais mon frère qui travaille en Suisse déploie des trésors d'imagination pour le faire croire; alors que sa femme est Suisse et qu'il est bilingue. Mais la barrière dans sa tête, c'est pas rien. Son père officiellement Allemand, mais frontalier; toute la famille ou presque a été déportée. Néanmoins, enfance en allemagne pour son père. Un jour français, un jour allemand. il a cessé tout effort en suisse trilingue; faut dire ils savent être nationalistes
Excellent presentation, very informative. Thanks
Please another video.
Super helpful!! Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much! You’ve made it so much easier with your diagrams. I get it now, finally!! Thanks again!
You're welcome Joyce!
Je vous remercie...! The part about passé compose was exactly what I needed...!
Great!
Just brilliant!
Tout d'abord, merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo utile ! 🙂 Deuxièmement, je veux ajouter une autre phrase...
"I want you to talk to him (over there)."
《Je te veux lui (y) parler.》ou
《Je te veux lui parler là-bas.》
Là, l'objet du verbe modal (veux) est "you". Donc, il est placé avant 《veux》, et pas 《parler》.
J'espère que c'est utile aussi ! 😊
(Btw, this is my practice writing, if I may. Thank you for allowing us to also practice here.)
Merci beaucoup Hazzar.
En fait, ici, on doit construire la phrase différemment qu'en anglais :
« Je veux que tu lui parles là-bas. » serait la bonne phrase.
Et oui, continue à pratiquer autant que tu le veux dans les commentaires.
Alex, that video was so helpful and so clear and simple, and on a topic I definitely needed help with. Thanks! I've been loving the channel for some months now and just became a member. Please keep up the great work.
You're so welcome Bruce! Glad it helped. Thanks so much for parting with your hard-earned cash. Where are you based?
@@FrenchinPlainSight I'm in Baltimore in eastern U.S., near Washington.
Brilliant. Merci!
Merci beaucoup ! I have just started watching your videos and found so many excellent materials for studying french. I will try to go through with all your clips. Your exlanation is so easy to follow and understand. I have been studying french by myself only through UA-cam and books. Reading will be ok but writing and speaking will be difficult as you know. However, I have been doing this way for two years. I certainly believe that your videos help and improve mon français a lot from now on.
Best of luck! Bon courage !
@@FrenchinPlainSight Merci beaucoup !
Merci pour le «cheat sheet».
De rien Mark !
Well. It's not easy at all to get familiar with this strange order.
So instead of saying 'I told you' they say 'je t' ai dit ' which literally means' 'I you told'' and etc...
Not easy at all. But say it 100 times and it'll feel more normal :). Je t'ai dit je t'ai dit je t'ai dit...
Thanks Alex. This was super useful. I had been going mental dealing with the word order of object pronouns especially with an auxiliary verb. I still find it hard to "hear" the deadly duo of "y" and "en" in rapid spoken French.
Deadly duo. I like that!
very helpful indeed! merci beaucoup!
very very very helpful. Thank you so much!
You're very welcome Ben
Merci beaucoup
This is SO helpful. Is your diagram published anywhere?
This is what happens if you comment before the end of the video. There’s a link in the description!
Excellent!
Glad you liked it!
Absolutely helpful
Merci Alex pour tes explications! t'as raison c'est un sujet vraiment profond!
Tellement profond ! J'espère que tout était clair ?
@@FrenchinPlainSight oui tout a fait!
Great video, thanks for the clear explanation!
You're welcome Rene! That's a pretty French name you have!
@@FrenchinPlainSight Haha yes, my Dad's side of the family speaks French and I'm working on catching up! ;)
Très utile comme d'habitude. Merci!
Excellent vid!
I was on a family outing and wanted to say: I saw him outside the church. At the time, I couldn't think of the words and so I Googled it later and it said: Je l'ai vu a l'exterieur de l'eglise. Can anyone explain why it is 'Je l'ai' ... and not 'Je lui ai'.
Thanks, this really helps clarify the COD and COI order confusion for me. Just to confirm,
Sometimes the COD comes directly after the subject and sometimes the COI comes directly after, as in the following examples:
-Je le lui ai donné(I gave it to him)
-Je vous L’ai donné (I gave it to you)
Can we say that There is no hard rule that either the COD or the COI comes after the subject, it depends on which COD is used? I’m guessing it’s safe to say that when the COD is “vous”or “to”, then it comes directly after the subject but in the case of “lui” being the COD it has to after the COI?
This seems to correspond to your chart, I’m sorry this sounds so convoluted. Describing technical grammar always makes my head spin. Does this make sense? If so, is it correct?
Merci, j’adore cette vidéo parce que cette vidéo aide avec le français
De rien! Je suis content d'avoir pu aider.
Un conseil : tu peux éviter la répétition de "la vidéo" comme ça : "parce qu'elle aide avec le français".
😎
@@FrenchinPlainSight Tu peux dire ça en anglais s’il vous plaît?
Yes. To avoid repetition of the word "la vidéo" you can remplace it with "elle".
@@FrenchinPlainSight thank you!!!
I always get confused with this order because in German (when I was learning), the indirect object always comes before the direct object which is opposite to French.😕
What about the negatives sentences, that'll be another thing. Thanks !
Tu t'appelles Alex comme moi😘. Merci pour les leçons
Useful ...but pls try to put the examples in English also from ur next videos ..: thanks
Great job Alex
but I have a question
what about 3 verbs how can I do it with them ex. " j'ai voulu donner le cadeau à mon amie " ?
When you use the passé composé you must think of the auxiliary and the main verb as one. Yes, avoir is a verb but in a compound tense (one with auxiliary and main verb) both parts form one, grammatically speaking.
So in your case you need to know which verb introduces the object. Here it's donner so the pronoun(s) goes before donner.
With that information, try and make the sentence :)
Un or mon cadeau. You're doing fine. it's almost impossible to not talk shop, well grammar/syntax at some point. With any luck and some work, you will feel things; you felt that something wasn't right in your sentence. That's very good. Le cadeau would point a known element. Remember Un/le from your beginnings; you know that. you're stretching your wings but doubting yourself. That's good. Make mistakes. Don't listen to the voice asking to slow things down. trust your gut. there are morons everywhere, but plenty of good people and thay'll sort things out. Give your best.
Merci beaucoup Alex, ce video est tres utile!
De rien !
Cette vidéo*
Merci infiniment
De rien !
Another great video Alex, thank you. Please can you remind me where I can download your charts?
Hi Margaret. If you mean the cheatsheet I mentioned, you can look in the description of the video. Just below the video there's an arrow to tap (on mobile) or "show more" on desktop and the description slides down.
Your videos are truly helpful. I can't wait to locate your deeper dive dive into pronouns!
Sometimes You don’t translate most complicated sentences. ..
frustrating.
Otherwise you’re great and adorable!!
Merci beaucoup Alex. Really helped me out. Doubt: if you have to answer this question (by saying yes) but by replacing the nouns with pronouns, "Est-ce que Robert a rencontre cette jolie fille au bal?" , will it be "Oui, il lui y a rencontree." or "Oui, il l'a rencontree cette jolie fille au bal."? (I don't really understand the second one because we are not replacing anything with the L' but my teacher said that it was the correct answer so...)
Hello.
The second one is correct because the verb rencontrer doesn't take a preposition to introduce its object. The girl is the object (only grammatically speaking).
Rencontrer quelqu'un. Therefore, quelqu'un is a direct object. Direct objects are replaced by direct object pronouns. In this case : la (l').
Have you seen my video about this? ua-cam.com/video/xQqiwEEklkk/v-deo.html
Hope this helps!
@@FrenchinPlainSight Oh ok thanks a bunch. will watch that video right away and will be sure to hit that like button
You're great! Thank you
You're great!
Je me toujour demande comment aprendre ces regles 🤣 j'en ai parlé avec mon copain qui parle francais couramment C1/2 et il m'en ai expliqué quand-meme que ca vient avec la practique. Je lui ai dit que ca m'arrive un peu dificil mais c'est vrai que quand on esseie d'en utiliser souvent c'est quand on vraiment aprend mieux.
J'espere que il y a pas beaucoup des errors dans cette frase (je sais, j'utilise pas les accents 😞, mais j'esseie :)
Je me demande toujours : voir les pronoms. Et mettre les choses dans l'ordre (on apprend vraiment mieux) Gros chapitre ! Beaucoup d'erreurs mais rien de grave . ta logique est bonne et tes oreilles bien ouvertes. (Il m'a expliqué) tu manipules des choses pas simples sans avoir l'entrainement nécessaire. Ton orthographe dit beaucoup. Tu écris mal mais penses bien. Parfait. Comme tu dis, il faut travailler, s'exercer. va voir sur le site de la francophonie. FLE = Français langue étrangère.
Même si tu t'arrêtais aujourd'hui, avec netflix tu peux rester dans le bain voire progresser. Faut regarder en français avec les sous-titres en français, ou sans sous-titres. ils sont là si tu en as besoin. Parfois décevants. Essaie encore.
thank you for this video
Those diagrams! Quels cadeaux! Merci.
Je me demande si l'ordre des pronoms sert des fonctions de liaison ?
De rien Jorge.
Concernant ta question au sujet des liaisons, je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir trop compris, mais ça ne m'étonne pas parce que je n'ai pas maîtrisé les règles de liaison.
À toi de me le dire !
@@FrenchinPlainSight Je pensais que peut-être les pronoms en, y, lui et leur sonnaient mieux devant les formes d'avoir que les pronoms le, la, me, te, etc?
@@jorgelynch2872 Honnêtement je n'en suis pas sûr !
I suppose it would be "J'ai voulu lui en parler" if you had both passé composé and an infinitive?
Exactly.
8 months in to trying to learn French on my own. Por moi tres difficile 👍
Difficile pour beaucoup de monde David. Parfois on a besoin d'aide :)
Merci beaucoup ♥️
De rien!
Merci beaucoup Alex! I need a lesson on this about every 10 minutes. Perhaps the next one could be the order when you are dealing with a negation in the passé composé with a reflexive verb for good measure! Questions please: I assume that the placement of the pronoun in the Future Proche is the same as when there are two verbs in present tense?
Haha. It's a topic that will stay with you for a while, for sure. Once you start saying the most common combinations you can start to forget the rule a bit. It'll surprise you.
Yes, futur proche has two independent verbs so the pronouns go between them - directly before the main verb.
Ils ne se les sont pas fait voler (leurs affaires). Ou : Ils ne s’en sont pas fait voler (de l’argent).
Mais ce se sont des exemples un peu exagérés et pas très naturels 😀!
Merci!!
Hello Alex, I watched your video but have a query, at the end of the video you put up an example plus que parfait: Je me l'etais dit, but should it be Je me l'avais dit - also I cant find the free download you mention. Thank you
Hello Eileen. Merci pour ton commentaire!
For that sentence, the presence of "me" tells us that we're using the reflexive form of the ver "dire" which is "se dire". In the present tense it's conjugated as "je me dis, tu te dis, il se dit" etc.
For all reflexive verbs, when putting them in a compound tense such as the plus-que-parfait, the auxiliary verb is always Être and not Avoir.
Je t'avais dit but Je m'étais dit.
Je t'ai dit (passé composé) but je me suis dit.
After a while it becomes automatic, but just remember that rule in the future :).
For the free download, it's in the description. Sometimes you need to click "Read more" to get the full description to appear. Here's the link to save you a trip: frenchinplainsight.com/pronoun-order-mastery
À bientôt !
@@FrenchinPlainSight , thank you for your help and the cheat sheet,
Je suis ougandais et j'apprends le français avec Duolingo mais ce sujet est très difficile 😭
what is different between dire and se dire?
In fact, not much: dire à quelqu'un. To say to someone. se dire = to say to oneself.
Je te dis un truc = I tell you something
Je me dis un truc = I tell myself something.
Se dire more commonly means "to think (to oneself)/to say to onself".
"Hier je me disais que ça faisait longtemps que je n'avais pas vu Sophie." = "Yesterday, I was thinking that it had been a long time since I'd seen Sophie"
When comparing verbs, i recommend putting them into Reverso's Context translator to see lots of examples in context.
Is "Je me l'étais dit." correct? or is it "Je me suis dit."
They are both correct, just different tenses. Plus que parfait & passé composé :)
wow my boy need some subs
How can we actually speak more? There's virtually no French people in Jacksonville, Florida. We need exercises that allow us to speak at length usable sentences and phrases.
You've gotta use the Internet in that case. Check this out: ua-cam.com/video/rs1H0qdS6gY/v-deo.html
How do you say, "I'm giving it to you and him"? Je te le lui donne ?
I'm pretty sure it's something like "Je vous le donne à toi et à lui". "Vous" here being for both people. But this is next level and it always stumps me so I've put it out to the Frenchies in my Instagram story!
"I'm going to give it to you and them."?
@@CaffeAddict Same logic as above. Always follow the logic. "You and them" is a group of multiple people of which "you" is a part, therefore you use "vous" to represent all parties. "Je vais vous le donner". Then, if you want to emphasise the different parties, you add it after: "Je vais vous le donner. À vous et à eux." or if the "you" is just one person and it's informal: "Je vais vous le donner. À toi et à eux."
@@CaffeAddict
Je vais le donner à vous et à eux.
Je l'aime
6:50 u c i would but im just tryna pass rn
How do l become French affiliate??
What's that?
French Learners: "je jamais dire ça à lui"
French Grammar: "je ne le lui ai jamais dit"
French speakers: "juillé jamais dit"
French Learners: "je parle à vous demain encore de ça"
French Grammar: "je vous en reparle demain"
French speakers: "chvou zenr'parl demain"
Ah haha noooo ne les écris pas comme ça ! Tu vas leur faire tous flipper !
@@FrenchinPlainSight c'est juste pour retranscrire la prononciation !
@@hackfrenchwithtom moi je comprends mais je crains que les autres apprenants trouvent ces orthographes trop pertubants ! Cela dit, il n'y a pas de moyen parfait d'expliquer ça à l'écrit à mon expérience !
French speakers: "juillé jamais dit"
Quebec French speakers : "gié jamais dit" or "juillé jamais dit"
The other one is the same.
Do you speak Occitan?
Not yet unfortunately. Maybe one day! You?
A related topic is the order of pronouns in affirmative and negative commands. The order is the same as in the charts you give. Parle-m'en. Same for the negative impératif: Ne m'en parle pas, or more likely, m'en parle pas! The negative command is simply the negative present tense without the subject pronoun. Pensez-y.
That last statement is not what I meant to say concerning the negation. Should be N'y pensez pas. Pensez-y is, of course, the affirmative command. J'en ai la tête qui tourne, moi. en = de cela, because of that.