In this case, why is parlé not parlée? Kwiziq says that "Note that the contracted forms of de + quel (duquel / de laquelle / desquels / desquelles) agree in gender and number with the object they refer to. "
Merci!
In this case, why is parlé not parlée? Kwiziq says that "Note that the contracted forms of de + quel (duquel / de laquelle / desquels / desquelles) agree in gender and number with the object they refer to. "
Merci!
Benjamin,
there is agreement in gender and number of the relative pronoun with the preposition-noun it replaces - it is ‘ de laquelle ‘ because it refers to one female.
However, that is not the same as invoking the rule of agreement of past participles of compound verbs with auxiliary avoir ( avoir parlé ) , which requires the verb’s direct object precede it in the phrase.
There is no direct object here as the verb form is ’ parler de qqn à qqn ‘.
In ‘ Je t’ai parlé…. ‘ , there is a contraction of the indirect object pronoun ‘te’ with ‘ai’, and past participle agreement does not occur with this part of the structure either.
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/verbs-with-a/
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