French HW help. Prenoms relatifs.

Question

Could someone pleeeassse help me pick the right prenoms relatifs? I'm almost sure I'm wrong on like 90% of this. Please help me ASAP. Merci!

1. La maison QUE mes sœurs ont grandi se trouve à côté de l'église.
2. Ce sont les enfants AUXQUELS votre frère a élevés tout seul.
3. C'est toi la personne QUI gâte Nathalie tout le temps, pas moi!
4. LEQUEL je ne me suis pas rendu compte, c'est que notre marriage ne marche plus.
5. Tes conseils, LESQUELS je te remercie, m'aident quand je dois prendre des décisions.
6. D'après maman, son oncle, QUI nous avons hérité le chalet, était très impoli avec elle.
7. Je crois que ce garçon-là, DONT tu ressembles, appartient à ta famille.
8. Les traditions familiales avec LESQUELS je suis d'accord nous aident à construire l'identité.

Answer 1

1. qui and que 

« Qui and que » can both be used to refer to persons or things. The main difference is, qui is used for the subject (or indirect object for persons) while « que »is for the direct object. Qui is also being used after a preposition (à, de or pour)

Qui (subject) could mean who, which, or that.

Que (direct object) could mean who, whom, which, or that.

A few examples:

Mon frère, qui a vingt ans, est à l’université.   My brother, who’s twenty, is at university.

*Est-ce qu‘il y a un bus qui va au centre-ville? ls there a bus that goes to the town centre?

Les amis que je vois le plus sont Léa et Mehdi.           The friends that I see most are Lea and Mehdi.

Voilà la maison que nous voulons acheter.     That’s the house which we want to buy.

la personne à qui il parle                                     the person he is speaking to

les enfants pour qui j’ai acheté des bonbons    the children I bought sweets for

Examples source: Collins Easy Learning French Grammar

*Kindly note that que is shortened to qu’ if it precedes a word that starts with a vowel or most words that begin with a letter h.

3. dont

Another relative pronoun is dont. When translated in English, it means whose, of whom, of which. It may be used to refer to persons or things. The good news is, it does not change its form, nor does it have to agree with anything!

les films dont tu parles                               the films you are talking about (plural noun)

la femme dont la voiture est en panne  the woman whose car has broken down (singular noun)

4. où

This relative pronoun is used for places and times. Its English counterpart could either be where, when or even which and that, depending on how it is used.

Où is also used as the question word where (see article on ASKING QUESTIONS IN FRENCH) and the way it is used as an interrogative pronoun is basically the same as its use as a relative pronoun. There is an added function however, and that is to refer to a time something occurred.

In short, it covers both place and time in its relative pronoun function and takes the job of “when” as well, aside from “where”. (Note: the interrogative pronoun “quand” is not as multifunctional as où and cannot be used as a relative pronoun.)

Some examples: 

Paris est la ville où on peut manger les meilleurs escargots . Paris is the city where we can eat the best snails. 

C’est l’année où ils ont gagné la coupe du monde.      That’s the year they won the world cup.

In addition, où can also be used after prepositions.

La ville d’où elle vient…

The city (where) she’s from…

1. Où( lieu) 2.que (indirect object) 3.qui( person) 4. Ce dont ( thing indirect object)

5.pour lesquels 6. dont (de qui) 7. auquel tu ressembles or à qui 8.avec lesquelles ( traditions f.word)

Hope it's helpful!!!!

Answer 2

1. Since the verb grandir requires requires à before the place in which or where the growing up takes place, i.e., Mes sœurs ont grandi à la maison, the prénom relatif should be laquelle following à: La maison à laquelle mes sœurs ont grandi se trouve à côté de l'église. (Informally, à laquelle could be replaced here by où.)

 

2. I believe the prénom relatif here would be just que since one would say Votre frère a élevé les enfants, where les enfants is simply the direct object of the verb a élevé.

 

3. This looks correct, but I'm not that familiar with the use of the transitive verb gâter.

 

4. I just don't think lequel can be used in this way, i.e., to begin a sentence while referring to something abstract like a proposition, in this case the idea that notre mariage ne marche plus (and note that the cognate for marriage in French is spelled with just one r). I would say Ce dont je ne me suis pas rendu compte, c'est que . . . instead, using dont since the basic form of the idiom is ne pas se rendre compte de quelque chose.

 

5. I believe you would have to add pour before lesquels since the verb remercier requires pour before whatever you're thanking someone for (the person being thanked is, as with English thank, the direct object), i.e., Je te remercie pour tes conseils. French, thankfully [snicker], doesn't have any contraction of pour with forms of lequel, à la duquels and auxquels.

 

6. The prénom relatif here should be dont since the verb hériter requires requires de before the person from whom  something is inherited (the thing being inherited is, as with English inherit, the direct object), i.e., Nous avons hérité le chalet de son oncle.

 

7. The prénom relatif here should be auquel since the verb ressembler requires requires à before the person or thing to whom a resemblance is being noted, i.e., Tu ressembles à ce garçon-là, and since garçon is masculine, à + lequel --> auquel.

 

8. First, the prénom relatif needs to be lesquelles since tradition is feminine (as are all other French nouns ending in -tion), and note the gender of traditions is signaled by being postmodified with the feminine plural adjective familiales (the masculine plural would be familiaux). But I do think that the preposition before lesquelles should be sur and not avec since the form of the idiom is être d'accord avec quelqu'un sur quelque chose, where avec precedes the person you're in agreement with and sur precedes the thing or idea you're in agreement on or over. That is, I'm guessing this is the meaning of the sentence, i.e., that you're "in accord" with family traditions which would be an abstract concept, or perhaps you're thinking more of the family members and how they act collectively or as individuals, so maybe in that case you would be agreeing "with" them.