French language

Grammar

:Main article: French grammar

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French grammar shares several notable features with most other Romance languages, including:

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• the loss of Latin's declensions
• only two grammatical genders
• the development of grammatical articles from Latin demonstratives
• new tenses formed from auxiliaries

French word order is Subject Verb Object, except when the object is a pronoun, in which case the word order is Subject Object Verb.

Related Topics:
Subject Verb Object - Subject Object Verb

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