Pronom ou adjectif qui marque la possession.
Le pronom possessif renvoie à la fois à un possesseur et à un objet possédé.
L'adjectif possessif donne une indication de possession, de propriété, en relation avec une personne grammaticale
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Use of the possessive e.g. "ma chérie"
Would one use "my" with darling (ie "ma chérie") to refer to a lover only, or can one also use it to refer to their child, or maybe a friend? How does using "chérie" on its own differ?
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Adjectif possessif avec « on »
Je me demande comment on utilise les adjectifs possessifs à la forme impersonnelle. Est-ce que c'est correct de dire :
On devrait rester prudent quel que soit son courage.
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Pourquoi « On fait un cadeau à sa femme » et pas « On fait un cadeau à notre femme » ?
In my French textbook, I encounter this sentence:
À la Saint-Valentin, on fait un cadeau à sa femme.
My question is: for an expression that describes group of people in which each person does something to their respective someone/something else,…
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"Ça me gâche la vie" type construction
I am regularly coming across the construction in French that uses an indirect object pronoun in combination with a direct object where English uses a possessive pronoun with the object (e.g. ça me gâche la vie for it's ruining my life)
and I am…
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Possessive pronouns before a feminine word starting with a vowel
It's been many years since I had French, so I am in doubt about a very basic thing. Let's say you want to say her school. école is feminine, so you'd expect sa, and thus s'. However, Google Translate seems to make each feminine word starting with a…
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