/ɔ̃/
Translation
one, we, people (informal)
Word origin
From Latin homo ('man, person'), via Old French hom/om used as an indefinite subject. The shift from a noun to an indefinite pronoun parallels the German 'man'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- homo
- English cognates
- human, homicide
Examples
?
Shall we go to the restaurant tonight?
France, dine .
In France, people have dinner around eight o'clock.
.
You never know what might happen.
' -midi.
It looks like it's going to be cold this afternoon.
pizza .
We ate an excellent pizza last night.
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Stories
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Conjugating French -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
Conjugating French -re Verbs in the Present Tense
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French Demonstratives: ce, cet, cette, ces and the -ci / -là Distance Split
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French Future Tense: Futur Proche, Futur Simple, and the Irregular Stems
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French Impersonal Verbs: il y a, il faut, il fait and the Dummy Subject 'il'
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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 Noun Gender: Why Every Noun Is Le or La, and the Endings That Give It Away
French Noun Plurals: Add -s, Say Nothing - the Article Does the Work
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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
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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 Question Words: qui, que, quand, où, comment, pourquoi and the Three Ways to Ask
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
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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 Superlatives: le plus, le moins, and the Irregulars
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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