Sitesurf 3 months ago
A choice made by Duolingo. It could indeed be “elles nous aiment”, but not “ils nous aiment” because there is an emphasis on the first word changed to “eux”, to mean that others do not like us. In the feminine form “elles “ remains “elles”, no equivalent to “eux”.
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lemmingofdestiny 2 months ago
Do mean ‘now equivalent to ‘“eux”‘?
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Sitesurf 2 months ago
Excuse my French: I meant that there is no feminine version of “eux”.
ce sont eux
ce sont elles
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dcldge 3 months ago
Why the disjunctive pronoun Eux instead of Elles/Ils (as in Elles/Ils nous aiment)?
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pavlikva 2 months ago
yes, why is there “eux = them” instead of “ils/elles = they”? In fact in no case using “eux” in the sentence with “aimer” is correct - the sentence, where “them” is used, for ex. “I love them.” = “Je les aime.”
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Sitesurf 2 months ago
As I mentioned before, there is an emphasis on the first word changed to “eux”, to mean that others may not like us.
And, in the feminine form “elles “ remains “elles”, no equivalent to “eux”, but in writing, we would add a comma, to point the emphasis : “Elles, nous aiment”.
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aviendhaSL 1 week ago
Can you change “ils” to “eux” whenever you want to add emphasis, then?
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Sitesurf 1 week ago
Absolutely right!
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offrampq 1 week ago
Do you mean if I want to emphasize the first word in the sentence, ‘you like us’, it will be ‘toi, nous aimes’? he/she/you/I -> il/elle/soi/toi/vous/moi
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Sitesurf 1 week ago
The only form that would not work is “on”. And there are two formulas only for 3rd persons, singular and plural. For the other persons, the subject pronoun would be repeated after a comma.
moi, je l’aime
toi, tu l’aimes
lui, il l’aime - or lui, l’aime
elle, elle l’aime - or elle, l’aime
nous, nous l’aimons
vous, vous l’aimez
eux, ils l’aiment - or eux, l’aiment
elles, elles l’aiment - or elles, l’aiment
