Didā¦ did the tables not help? They can be used as either singular or plural but itās always third person.
If I was speaking directly to you, and you used they/them pronouns. I wouldnāt convert the sentence āYou are tallā to āThey are tallā. Those 2 sentences mean entirely different things. Thatās what the āpersonā part of a pronoun is. Itās who youāre referring to. 1st person is the person speaking, 2nd person is the person being spoken to, and 3rd person is someone about whom you are speaking.
1st - āI am tall.ā
2nd - āYou are tall.ā
3rd - āHe/She/They is/are tall.ā
1st - āJe suis grand.ā
2nd - āTu/Vous es grand.ā
3rd - āIl/Elle est grand(e).ā
Does this help? Tu is already not gendered. Vous isnāt gendered either. Itās not the same as ātheyā at all. It means an entirely different thing.
No youād say āThey are tall.ā Because thatās how we conjugate that in English. They has always been used as both a singular and a plural because we donāt always know the gender of who were talking about. In French il/ils is the default when you donāt know a 3rd personās gender. Il/ils is masculine.
It isnāt. Iām a French speaker, Iām telling you it isnāt. Vous is second person singular or plural. They is third person singular or plural. They is NEVER second person. Vous is NEVER third person. This is how the language is used around the world today.
Didā¦ did the tables not help? They can be used as either singular or plural but itās always third person.
If I was speaking directly to you, and you used they/them pronouns. I wouldnāt convert the sentence āYou are tallā to āThey are tallā. Those 2 sentences mean entirely different things. Thatās what the āpersonā part of a pronoun is. Itās who youāre referring to. 1st person is the person speaking, 2nd person is the person being spoken to, and 3rd person is someone about whom you are speaking.
1st - āI am tall.ā
2nd - āYou are tall.ā
3rd - āHe/She/They is/are tall.ā
1st - āJe suis grand.ā
2nd - āTu/Vous es grand.ā
3rd - āIl/Elle est grand(e).ā
Does this help? Tu is already not gendered. Vous isnāt gendered either. Itās not the same as ātheyā at all. It means an entirely different thing.
You/they arenāt gendered already. You/They are tall. He/She is tall
People started using them as pronouns even though you would never say āthey is tallā
Itās the same thing
No youād say āThey are tall.ā Because thatās how we conjugate that in English. They has always been used as both a singular and a plural because we donāt always know the gender of who were talking about. In French il/ils is the default when you donāt know a 3rd personās gender. Il/ils is masculine.
It isnāt. Iām a French speaker, Iām telling you it isnāt. Vous is second person singular or plural. They is third person singular or plural. They is NEVER second person. Vous is NEVER third person. This is how the language is used around the world today.