Un milliard or billion, a thousand millions, un trillion, etc. Cent takes an s when immediately before the noun; it does not take it when followed by another number trois cents hommes; trois cent cinquante hommes. Mille never takes the s in the plural: deux mille hommes. In dates, mille is contracted into mil: mil huit cent trente-cinq. There are many other numerical expressions used in poetry, music, games, etc.: as, distique, tercet, quatrain, sixain, huitain, etc. solo, duo, trio, quatuor, quinque, quinte, octave, etc. beset, sonnez, etc. Un millier is very often employed for one thousand weight, but quintal is never used except in the sense of one hundred weight. The distributive numbers are those which express the different parts of a whole : as, la moitié, the half; le quart, the quarter; un cinquième, a fifth, etc. : The proportional denote the progressive increase of things: as, le double, the double; le triple, the treble; le centuple, a hundred fold, etc. CHAPTER IV. OF THE PRONOUN. 56. A pronoun is a word substituted in the place of a noun. There are several kinds of pronouns, as the personal possessive, relative, absolute, demonstrative, and indefinite. SECTION I. OF THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS. 57. Personal pronouns are used in the places of persons and things, to avoid their being repeated. 58. There are three persons: the first who speaks, the second who is spoken to, and the third is the person or thing spoken of. They are both masculine and feminine; that is, of the same gender as the person or persons they represent. 59. In general, je and me are put before the verb; moi, de moi, à moi after it, and nous before or after, as the case requires. I cast my eyes saw EXERCISE. upon the objects which surrounded me, and portui vue f. s. sur objet environnaient me with pleasure that all was calm and tranquil. Do you not je vis avec que était calme see in all the features voyez 2 dans * tranquille 3. 1-4 of my father that he is satisfied with content de que What were they saying of us? me? trait m. pl. We have told the truth. vérité f. Que on 2 disait 1 Object. toi toi de toi Subject. vous Object. à toi to thee donne-toi la peinegive thyself the trouble .. toi thee habille-toi dress thyself of thee nous parlons de toiwe speak of thee. Plural. ge,or you vous louez Dieu you praise God vous for à vous to you In general, tu and te are put before the verb; toi, de toi, à toi are placed after; vous is placed either before or after, according as the case requires. REMARK. Politeness has led to the use of the plural vous, instead of the singular tu: as, vous êtes bien bon you are very good, for tu es bien bon.. learnt EXERCISE. Thou art greater than I; and from thee I have (at once) wisdom. I (was appris 1 art. = f. art. sagesse f disais te que dancing is to the body what taste is to the mind. You have m. ce que art. goût m. esprit m. avez 2 art. danse f. shown us great talents; when (will you show) us great virtues. -m. quand montrerez-vous 2 1 de f.pl. montré 3 1 de How amiable you are! How good you are to have thought of Que 3 1 êtes 2 3 1 2 de vous être occupé us! (It was said) of you the other day, On disait autre jour m. (in order to) pour |