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WHAT ARE THEY?
They are small words which replace names of things or peoples. In English instead of saying:
'Hey, I hear you met Bob, yesterday. How is Bob?'
You say
'Hey, I hear you met Bob, yesterday. How is he?'
'he' is a pronoun. Actually, in the same sentence, so is 'I' (that's me!), and 'you' (that's the person I am talking to).
HOW DO YOU DO IT?
If the pronouns are the subject of the sentence (ie they are doing the action) there are as follows:
I Je
You Tu (you to a friend)
He Il
She Elle
We Nous or On (more modern form)
You You (polite form or for more than 1 person)
They Ils (more than one man, or men and women)
They Elles (more than one woman)
As we have seen with tenses, for each of those pronouns the verbs have different endings. They are grouped as follows:
Je I
Tu You
Il, elle, on He,she,we (they are different but share the same endings)
Nous The other we
Vous You different ending from tu
Ils, elles Both share the same ending
They are always in the same order and dictionaries are organised following this order. When you are given 6 endings (for example in the present e,es,e,ons,ez,ent) they follow the order above. Following the example above:
-e is the ending for Je (I)
-es is the ending for Tu (you)
-e is the ending for Il / Elle (He or she)
-ons is the ending for Nous (We)
-ez is the ending for Vous (You)
-ent is the ending for Ils / Elles (They)
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