Skill 05 · Discourse foundation

Stress pronouns

Eight words used to emphasise, answer, or follow a preposition.

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You learnt subject pronouns in Skill 04 — the words that go before verbs (je suis, tu es). Stress pronouns are the same people, but used in three other places: for emphasis (Moi, je suis étudiant), after prepositions (avec moi, chez toi, pour eux), and alone in short answers (— Qui? — Moi.). Most are very close to the subject form. Three change shape: je → moi, tu → toi, ils → eux.

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Fill in the blank with the right stress pronoun.

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Hear stress pronouns in real spoken French. In this clip, children blame each other after breaking something — the pattern is "Ce n'est pas ___, c'est ___" ("It's not me, it's him!"). Every stress pronoun appears in context.

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