Direct Object Pronouns - Today’s French

Direct Object Pronouns - Today’s French

Les pronoms d’objets directs

Look at this sentence:

• Il prend le téléphone.
  • Il is the acting part of the sentence. It’s the subject of the verb
  • prend is the verb, the action itself
  • le téléphone is the receiver part of the action. It’s the object of the verb

When you replace le téléphone by a pronoun, a word replacing the noun, that pronoun keeps the same object function in the sentence. le téléphone is masculine and singular. The masculine singular pronoun is LE for our sentence.

• Il LE prend.

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You will use an object pronoun when you need to replace the object of a sentence, most often in order not to repeat the same words too often.

• La petite Tour Eiffel en plastique bleu est sur la table. Anne prend la Tour Eiffel.
• La petite Tour Eiffel en plastique bleu est sur la table. Anne la prend.

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