Language/Fic Question

[redfiona99]

My French being appalling, I'm trying to figure out how to turn ""Après moi, le déluge" in to 'After him, the deluge', and all I'm getting is "Après il, le déluge", which I suspect is wrong in many ways.

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[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

Après lui. :D

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

At least that's how it works over here in the land of Franglais.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Now I have to ask - is it because it's 'him' with a direct object? (I loathe grammar)

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

What thedevilchicken said. :D

[thedevilchicken.livejournal.com]

Definitely "après lui" - disjunctive pronoun here rather than direct object pronoun, weirdly enough. Those are the moi-toi-lui-elle pronouns instead of je-tu-il-elle or me-te-le-la, etc.

"Après il" would be like saying "after he," if that makes sense!

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Makes perfect sense. I continue to hate grammar.

[thedevilchicken.livejournal.com]

I love grammar, and particularly French grammar, but I'm somewhat weird!

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

I can just about cope with English and German grammar, but French breaks my brain for some reason.

[thedevilchicken.livejournal.com]

It's weird how language works because y'know, German has never made any sense to me at all. I keep trying and it never sticks.

I continue to blame my GCSE German teacher who totally failed to explain any grammar at all and so everything I "know" about German grammar is actually extrapolated from Latin!

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

With German, with the exception of irregular verbs, I like it because once you know the rule, it stays at that rule :)