Je trouve ma dinde moins sèche que le tienne.

Steve D.C1Kwiziq community member

Je trouve ma dinde moins sèche que le tienne.

I answered "le votre". Would I say "le tienne" to a stranger, for example?

This question relates to:French lesson "Le mien/le tien/le sien/etc = Mine/yours/his/hers/its (French Possessive Pronouns)"

Asked 1 year ago

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CécileNative French expert teacher in KwiziqCorrect answer

Hi Steve,

Talking to someone you said 'vous' to (could be just a mark of respect and not necessarily a stranger) you could say -

... que la vôtre

with a circumflex and it is accepted as a possibility.

Hope this helps!

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Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Steve, no, you wouldn’t use “le tien’ or ‘la tienne” when talking to someone you would ‘vouvoyer’. ( Note, it should be ‘la tienne’ for ‘ ta dinde’, not le tienne or le tien ).

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/vouvoyer

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Steve D. asked:

Je trouve ma dinde moins sèche que le tienne.

I answered "le votre". Would I say "le tienne" to a stranger, for example?

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