Direct Object Pronouns: Agreement
French: Cambridge International GCSE, topic 8.3.5
Direct Object Pronouns: Le, La, Les, L'
The direct object pronouns le, la, l’ and les are used to replace the direct object (DO) of the 3rd person singular or plural in a sentence.
Passé composé
- Verbs with avoir in the past tense do not agree:
- J'ai mangé la pomme.
- I have eaten the apple.
Verb agreement
- However, when we put a direct object pronoun, it agrees in gender and number with the verb that follows.
- Je l'ai mangée.
- We add the '-e' for feminine agreement.
Example
- J'ai mangé la pomme.
- I have eaten the apple.
- Je l'ai mangée.
- I have eaten it.
- La pomme is feminine, so it agrees with mangée (doble '-e').