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As I understand, Qui is used for the subject pronoun while Que is used for the object pronoun.

In this sentence from an instructor: "J'aime tous les pâtisseries qui contiennent du chocolate", why does she use qui if 'pâtisseries' is the object that contains chocolate?

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    Welcome to French Language Stack Exchange. Does this answer your question? Utilisation de "qui" et "que" – livresque Dec 16 '21 at 01:21
  • The sentence should have been J'aime toutes* les pâtisseries*. But this is not what your question is about. Your question is not about French language but about distinguishing grammatical subjects and objects, English and French (and a lot of other languages) identify grammatical objects the same way. You could read that page to enlighten you. – None Dec 16 '21 at 07:35
  • Can les pâtisseries be both the subject and object? Because in my mind 'je' is still the subject of the sentence. J'(aime) => les pâtisseries (contiennent) => du chocolat – user9142430 Dec 17 '21 at 04:10
  • @user9142430 Yes. The smaller sentence "pastries contain chocolate" is nested in your main sentence. We call it a complément du nom and it complements the noun pâtisseries. It's introduced with qui instead of que here because that noun is the subject of that nested sentence. – Simon Dec 18 '21 at 08:06

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