Notre cousine me te rappelle. ou Je vous la rappelle. Ces phrases sont correctes?

Barbara D.C1Kwiziq community member

Notre cousine me te rappelle. ou Je vous la rappelle. Ces phrases sont correctes?

Asked 6 years ago
AurélieNative French expert teacher in KwiziqCorrect answer

Bonjour Barbara !

Actually, that's a very interesting question :)

Your first sentence is definitely incorrect, and the second one would be used to remind someone of something feminine (une règle, une loi...), but not a person.

To express "to remind [someone] of [me, him, you...]", you'll prefer to use "faire penser à + [stress pronouns]" (Literally: make think of), used as follows:

Tu me fais penser à lui.
Elle me fait penser à toi au même âge.

I hope that's helpful!

Bonne journée !

John C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Aurélie this is a great response but it's gotten lost in all the succeeding comments and should be part of the lesson. Several commenters above used the direct object pronoun "la" to mean "of her" as Barbara did in her question but were never corrected. 

Notre cousine me te rappelle. ou Je vous la rappelle. Ces phrases sont correctes?

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