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5.1.1 Subject / Nominative

To be very clear on the subject we go through the single declinations to give you a better understanding.

Within the declination the subject of a sentence is called nominative. To find it, the question is who? It is the basic form of the noun or personal pronoun, without any changes.

Example
	He	eats	a	cake.	Who	eats	a	cake?	He.
	Il	mange	un	gâteau.	Qui	mange	un	gâteau?	Il (lui).*
	They	eat	a	cake	Who	eats	a	cake?	They.
	Ils	mangent	un	gâteau.	Qui	mange	un	gâteau?	Ils (eux). *

* Here we have a specialty in French, when asking for subject and answering with the personal pronoun, the accentuated personal pronoun is used. We will come back to this later.



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