In this lesson, you'll see three cases in which stress pronouns (moi, toi, lui, elle, soi, nous, vous, eux, elles) are used in French.
In sentences, after prepositions (de, à, avec, derrière, pour etc)
- in comparisons, after que (plus/moins/aussi ....que),
- with the restriction ne... que (only), after que.
Case of soi
Soi is used to represent a universal "one[self]", in general statements or descriptions. It's the stress pronoun matching the general meaning of "on" (we/you/people) or the impersonal "il".
See also previous lessons Moi, toi, lui, elle = me, you, him, her (stress pronouns) and Nous, vous, eux, elles = us, you, them (stress pronouns)
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