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Spanish seems to be the only one of the romance languages that kept the "other" vosotros is vos-otros/otras and nosotros is nos-otros/otras. Someone told me that this usage came about because the Christians wanted you know they were the believers and the other, Jews, Muslims et ali, were outsiders.
- I've read a discussion on the grammar of this a while ago. Basically nous-autres and vous-autres correspond to the emphatic forms "moi", "toi" and...
- "autres" is meant to emphasize the difference between "nous" and the other people. For my intuitive knowledge (and thus maybe wrong), this marks a...
- If you have taken a Spanish course, you know that "nosotros" is the first person plural pronoun. In Spain, similarly, "vosotros" is the familiar se...
- In Catalan, we = nosaltres and you pl. familiar = vosaltres. In Gascon, we = nosautres and you pl. = vosautres. (Both reflect "we others" and "you...
- In the southern part of Italy we hear noi-altri and voi-altri. It is not grammatical correct in Florentine Italian but in the dialects it is what p...
- In French Canada and the northern tier of NY, VT, ME and NH, the subject nous is almost never used in familiar conversation. Rather we say on. So,...
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IPA(key): (Canada) /ø.z‿otʁ/IPA(key): (Lousiana) /ø.z‿ot/eux-autres m pl or f pl 1. (Canada, Louisiana) they 1.1. 2001, Kevin James Rottet, Language Shift in the Coastal Marshes of Louisiana, →ISBN: 1.1.1. Ils ont fait croire aux parents que leurs enfants étaient dan' un grand désavantage parce qu'ils parlaient français. Ils aviont pas compris encore qu'eux-autres aurait pu garder la langue française. 1....
1908, James Geddes, A Study of an Acadian-French Dialect Spoken on the North Shore of the Baie-des-Chaleurs(page 121, etc)2009, Albert Valdman; Kevin J. Rottet, Dictionary of Louisiana French, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 267:2016, Sylvain Detey, Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks, Chantal Lyche, Varieties of Spoken French, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), pages 454 and 483 (has this as a "traditional Laurentian form" and a L...Sign up and you'll be the first to know about new shows, music, mall appearances, or weird dreams we had. Home page of Eux Autres, an indie group from West Coast, USA. Rock band. "Hovering somewhere between a high-school French-class assignment and Thee Headcoats."
Nous autres et vous autres, qui s’écrivent sans trait d’union, s’emploient notamment devant un nom en apposition. Employées de façon absolue, ces locutions appartiennent à la langue courante; dans un style plus soutenu, on emploiera uniquement les pronoms nous et vous.
Jul 11, 2019 · "Vous autres" is the Quebecois (French Canadian) equivalent of "you guys". We use "guys" more broadely though. Your guess is correct, "eux autres" is something commknly said that means "these/those guys".
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