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| thephilologist Tetraglot Newbie United States Joined 6032 days ago 26 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 1 of 5 16 April 2009 at 5:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I have a quick question about something not covered in my French grammar book. When do you use a -t- to separate two words? I get the feeling that it is used when a subject pronoun follows its verb, such as "demanda-t-il" when the verb ends with a vowel and the pronoun begins with a vowel. Is this correct? Is it limited to subject pronouns, or also subject nouns, such as "demanda-t-Emilie". And if it is used to separate vowels, is it used with all vowels? Thanks!
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| Spiderkat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5810 days ago 175 posts - 248 votes  Speaks: French*, English Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 5 16 April 2009 at 7:12am | IP Logged | ||
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It's an euphonic T that appears between the verb and the pronoun subject. And yes, it's limited to subject pronouns in the third person of singular only.
Edit. Oops! My bad! Of course, I meant third person and not first. Edited by Spiderkat on 16 April 2009 at 4:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 3 of 5 16 April 2009 at 7:30am | IP Logged | ||
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| guilon Pentaglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6190 days ago 226 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Spanish*, PortugueseC2, FrenchC2, Italian, English | Message 4 of 5 16 April 2009 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Exactly, it's an euphonic T and here are the rules to it:
-There must be inversion (verb-subject) -The subject being of the third person of singular (il/elle/on) -The ending of the verb being an -A, a mute -E or the verbs "vaincre" and "convaincre" (convainc-t-il) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| victor Tetraglot Moderator United States Joined 7316 days ago 1098 posts - 1056 votes 6 sounds Speaks: Cantonese*, English, FrenchC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 25 April 2009 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
The "-t" is used for inversion, but is always "verb-t-pronoun", so you would have to say "Emilie demanda-t-elle". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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