1.44:_Pronoms_demonstratifs

<p><span class="mt-color-993366">Demonstrative pronouns</span> <strong>celui</strong>, <strong>celle</strong>, <strong>ceux</strong> and <strong>celles</strong> replace demonstratives adjectives + nouns and translate to <strong>the one</strong> or <strong>the ones</strong>. They must agree in number and gender with the nouns they replace. They can be followed by <strong>qui</strong>, <strong>qui</strong> and <strong>de</strong>.</p>

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<p><span class="mt-color-993366">Compound demonstrative pronouns</span> are used to compared two similar nouns. They&rsquo;re the demonstrative pronouns (<em>celui, celle etc</em>.) followed by the particle <strong>-ci</strong> and &ndash;<strong>l&agrave;</strong> and are used to express <strong>this one</strong> or <strong>that one</strong>.</p>

<p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">&#9758; Quels pantalons est-ce que tu pr&eacute;f&egrave;res, <strong>ceux-ci</strong> ou <strong>ceux-l&agrave; </strong>?</span> <span style="color:#808080;"><em>Which pair of pants to you prefer? These ones or those ones?</em></span></p>

<p><strong>Ceci</strong>, <strong>cela</strong> and <strong>&ccedil;a</strong> on their one can mean this and that when referring to indefinite things or previously spoken ideas. In spoken French <strong>&ccedil;a</strong> is short for <strong>ceci</strong>.</p>

<p style="padding-left: 40px"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">&#9758; &Ccedil;a</span></strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">, c&rsquo;est une tr&egrave;s bonne id&eacute;e !</span> <span style="color:#808080;"><em>That&rsquo;s a good idea!</em></span></p>

<p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">&#9758; Prends <strong>&ccedil;a </strong>! </span><span style="color:#808080;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"> </span><em>Take that!</em></span></p>

<p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">&#9758; Mange <strong>ceci </strong>!</span> <span style="color:#808080;"><em>Eat this!</em></span></p>
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