Why does the sentence start "à moins que tu vives" and then change to "vous vous voyiez'? Why isn't it "tu te voies"?
switching between "tu" and "vous" in a sentence
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Kathleen P.Kwiziq community member
switching between "tu" and "vous" in a sentence
This question relates to:French writing exercise "Choosing gifts: what a pain!"
Asked 10 hours ago
Maarten K. Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
Kathleen,
“ Unless you literally live with the person or (that) you see each other every day “
The hint in the lesson is to use ‘ tu ‘ for ‘ you ‘ in the general commentary, as if addressing a single person informally, or speaking of oneself in 2nd person, so ‘ tu ‘ fits in the first clause.
However, that cannot work in ‘you see each other every day ‘ as the ‘ you ‘ in this clause has to be plural - vous - and the verb in the pronominal (reciprocal) form.
‘ … tu te voies’ would be ‘ (you) see yourself ‘, not 2 people seeing each other.
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