How to use demonstrative pronouns in French

How to use demonstrative pronouns in French

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in French? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short French lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning French demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

French demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'ce' or 'cette' in French. The word 'ce' is used with masculine words and the word 'cette' is used with feminine words.

Examples

cette maison
this house
cet enfant
this child
cette pierre
this stone
ce livre
this book
cette porte
this door
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Step 6 : French demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns livre, chaise and porte (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about French demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the French demonstrative pronouns with the nouns livre, chaise and porte and the plural nouns livres, chaises and portes you can move on to Step 7 (French adjectives).

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