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The French personal pronouns (analogous to English ''I'', ''we'', ''you'', and so on) reflect the person and number of their referent, and in the case of the third person, its gender as well (much like English's distinction between ''him'' and ''her'', except that French draws this distinction among inanimate nouns as well). They also reflect the role they play in their clause: subject, direct object, indirect object, or other. The personal pronouns display a number of grammatical particularities and complications not found in their English counterparts: some of them can only be used in certain circumstances; some of them change form depending on surrounding words; and their placement is largely unrelated to the placement of the nouns they replace. ==Overview== # ''je'', ''me'', ''te'', ''se'', ''le'', and ''la'' become ''j''', ''m''', ''t''', ''s''', ''l''', and ''l''' respectively before a vowel or mute ''h''. See Elision (French). # The pronoun ''il'' and its forms refer to males (like English ''he''), while the pronoun ''elle'' and its forms refer to females (like English ''she''). However, as all French nouns (even inanimate and intangible objects) are either grammatically masculine or feminine, these pronouns can also refer to masculine and feminine nouns. In this case, both ''il'' and ''elle'' translate to the English pronoun ''it''. (See Grammatical gender.) # In formal French, the pronoun ''on'' is often replaced by ''l'on'' after a vowel; in particular, formal French often replaces ''si on'' and ''qu'on'' with ''si l'on'' and ''que l'on'', respectively. This does not affect the meaning, only the pronunciation. In modern French, ''on'' has replaced ''nous'' as pronoun for the plural first person. ''Nous'' is used in formal usage. # In French, a group containing at least one male or one masculine noun is considered masculine, and takes the pronoun ''ils''. Only exclusively female or feminine groups take ''elles''. # Broadly speaking, ''lui'' and ''leur'' are used to refer to people, and ''y'' (see "Indirect-object pronouns" and "The pronoun ''y''" below) is used to refer to things. However, ''lui'' and ''leur'' will sometimes also be used in referring to things. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French personal pronouns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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