/nu/
Translation
we, us
Word origin
First-person plural pronoun ('we, us'), from Latin nos ('we, us').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- nos
Examples
.
We're going to the restaurant tonight.
.
He told us the truth.
.
We arrived early.
partons .
We are going on holiday to the seaside tomorrow morning.
, ' '.
Between us, this restaurant isn't as good as it used to be.
Nous est le pronom personnel de la premiere personne du pluriel, employe comme sujet (nous partons), objet direct (il nous voit), objet indirect (il nous parle) et tonique apres preposition (avec nous). En francais contemporain, surtout a l'oral, nous est tres souvent remplace par le pronom indefini on : on y va au lieu de nous y allons. Ce substitut est entierement accepte dans les contextes informels et de plus en plus courant a l'ecrit courant.
Le choix entre nous et on depend du registre : nous reste obligatoire dans les ecrits formels, les discours officiels et quand on veut marquer la distinction entre le groupe dont on fait partie et les autres. On est la forme naturelle de la conversation. A noter : quand on remplace nous, l'accord de l'adjectif attribut suit parfois le nombre reel (on est arrives vs on est arrive) - les deux sont attestees.
Used in
Stories
(9)On a le temps
1 min read · Core 1000
Un soir avec Marc
1 min read · Core 1000
Seule dans la nuit
2 min read · Core 1000
Cuisiner ensemble
3 min read · Core 1000
La fête surprise
3 min read · Core 1000
Le bus manqué
3 min read · Core 1000
Le dernier train de la nuit
3 min read · Core 1000
Un voyage difficile
4 min read · Core 1000
Une rencontre au marché
4 min read · Core 1000
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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 Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
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
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
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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
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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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