/ʒə/
Translation
I
Word origin
From Old French jeo, from Latin ego ('I'). The same Indo-European root lies behind English I.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- ego
- English cognates
- ego, I
Examples
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I have been working in Paris for five years.
' .
I don't understand what he is saying.
pars .
Tomorrow I am leaving on holiday with my family.
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I find this coffee a bit too strong this morning.
', -- .
If I can help you, just tell me.
Used in
Stories
(10)On a le temps
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Un soir avec Marc
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Seule dans la nuit
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Cuisiner ensemble
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Le bus manqué
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Le dernier train de la nuit
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Le nouveau docteur
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Le premier jour de travail
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Un voyage difficile
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Une rencontre au marché
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Grammar articles
(45)French Adjective Position: Default, BAGS, and the Meaning Shifts
French Advanced Grammar (C1-C2): The Constructions That Sound Native
Comparing French Adverbs: plus vite, le mieux, and the Irregulars
French Adverbs of Manner: Forming -ment Adverbs
French Articles: Definite, Indefinite, Partitive, and the Article English Speakers Drop
French Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
French Comparatives: plus, moins, aussi and the Three Irregulars
French Conditionnel: Polite Requests, Hypothetical 'Would', and the Same Irregular Stems as the Future
Conjugating French -er Verbs in the Present Tense
Conjugating French -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
Conjugating French -re Verbs in the Present Tense
French Verb Conjugation: The Complete Rules with Examples
French Demonstrative Pronouns: celui, celle, ceux, celles
French Demonstratives: ce, cet, cette, ces and the -ci / -là Distance Split
Reported Speech in French: Tense Backshift (dit que, a dit que)
French Future Tense: Futur Proche, Futur Simple, and the Irregular Stems
French Imparfait: One Stem, One Set of Endings, One Irregular
French Imperative: tu, nous, vous Commands and the Three Irregulars
French Impersonal Verbs: il y a, il faut, il fait and the Dummy Subject 'il'
French Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
French quel and lequel: Which and Which One
French Negation Beyond pas: ne... que, ni... ni, aucun
French Negation: ne... pas, jamais, rien, personne and the Colloquial ne-Drop
French Object Pronouns: me, te, le, la, lui, nous, vous, leur and the Preverbal Position
The French Present Participle and Gerund (le participe présent et le gérondif)
French Partitives and 'de': du, de la, des and the Negation Rule
Passé Composé vs Imparfait: How to Choose Between the Two French Past Tenses
French Passé Composé: avoir or être + Past Participle and the MRS VANDERTRAMP Set
The French Pluperfect (le plus-que-parfait): The Past Before the Past
French Possessive Pronouns: le mien, le tien, le sien, le nôtre, le vôtre, le leur
French Possessives: mon, ma, mes and the mon-Before-Vowel Trap
French Prepositions: à, de, en, dans, sur, chez and the Mandatory Contractions
French Pronouns Y and EN: there, some, of it, of them
French Reflexive Verbs: se laver, se lever, s'appeler and the Singular Pronouns
French Relative Pronouns: qui, que, dont, où and How to Glue Clauses Together
French si Clauses: The Three Types of Conditional Sentence
French Stressed Pronouns: moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux, elles
The French Subjunctive After Conjunctions
The French Subjunctive After Doubt, Emotion and Opinion
The French Subjunctive After Necessity and Will
The French Present Subjunctive: How to Form It
French Time Expressions: depuis, pendant, il y a and pour
Venir de + Infinitive: the French Recent Past (to have just done something)
The French Passive Voice (la voix passive)
French Word Order: SVO, the Object Pronoun Inversion, and Six Rules That Cover 90% of Sentences
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