{"id":601,"date":"2020-09-21T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sillabi.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2025-06-20T15:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:09:07","slug":"personal-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/personal-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As in English, the verbs in French are always accompanied by a personal pronoun, and it\u2019s the pronoun that identifies the person (1st, 2nd and 3rd person, singular or plural).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/brooke-cagle-uHVRvDr7pg-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1145 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>French is not written as it is pronounced, nor is it pronounced as it is written; most final consonants are silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;For example, the verb <em>tu t\u00e9l\u00e9phones<\/em> (you telephone) is pronounced as in <em>je t\u00e9l\u00e9phone<\/em>. It is therefore the pronoun that identifies the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further explanations are available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sillabi.com\/en\/resources\/fr\/a1\/\">A1 grammar sheets<\/a>: \u201cLes pronoms personnels\u201d, \u201cLe pr\u00e9sent des verbes du 1er groupe\u201d, \u201cLe pr\u00e9sent des verbes du 2\u00e8me groupe\u201d and \u201cLe pr\u00e9sent des verbes du 3\u00e8me groupe\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in English, the verbs in French are always accompanied by a personal pronoun, and it\u2019s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,117],"tags":[260,291],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a1-french","category-fr-french","tag-grammar","tag-personal-pronouns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}