Re: phrase's order
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 27, 2004, 7:11 |
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:06:30 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> In frensh, the order will be SVO if the object is a noun or an adjective
>
> "Je mange une pomme" I eat an apple
> "J'aime ma femme" I love my wife
> "Je deviens vieux" I become old
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> but if the object is a pronoun it will become SOV
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> "Je la mange" I eat it(feminine, like "pomme")
> "Je t'aime" I love you
> "Je le deviens" I become it
And if you have an indirect object pronoun, it can be either S-DO-IO-V
("Je le lui donne") or S-IO-DO-V ("Il me le donne")!
(And I'm not sure of the order if there's no third person involved --
does "Elle me te donne" mean "She gives you to me" or "She gives me to
you"? I'm guessing the former, though, i.e. S-IO-DO-V order in thie
case.)
I wonder why this order came about, i.e. third person IO pronouns
coming last instead of first.
Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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