Hi Josh,
thank you very much. I will try it. In a perverse way it is a good
thing because it will help me conjugate the verbs correctly.
All the best for the festive season and thanks again
Mozz
On Dec 22, 7:29 am, Joshua Ramsey wrote:
> Hello, Mozzie.
>
> I posted a couple weeks ago about this, and found that one way you can
> force the "tu" form in French is to use the archaic English form of
> "thou/thee/thy/thine."
>
> In essence, English used to have singular and plural second person
> pronouns, the singular being "thou" and the plural being "you." In
> fact, just as in French, the plural "you" form was used for formal
> occasions, and "thou" was the familiar form.
>
> Unfortunately, you must also conjugate the verb correctly to get the
> correct French conjugation. In other words, to get "Tu es grand," you
> must enter "Thou art great." Also, it doesn't seem to work with all
> verbs, especially English verbs which entered the language after the
> "thou" forms were no longer used.
>
> But, as long as you know what familiar/single person verb forms look
> like in French, you should be able to know if the translation worked.
> (Sometimes Google will give the "Tu" pronoun, but will conjugate the
> verb as though it were third person singular.) So, be careful and you
> should be fine.
>
> Take care,
> Joshua
>
> On Dec 21, 5:32 am, Mozzie wrote:
>
>
>
> > does anyone know how to direct the translator to selecdt the more
> > personal means of communication in French. EG Tu a instead of vous
> > etre. Tu instead of Vous ??- Hide quoted text -
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