redfiona99: (Thinking)
redfiona99 ([personal profile] redfiona99) wrote2015-04-03 08:06 pm

Language/Fic Question

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.

[identity profile] thedevilchicken.livejournal.com 2015-04-03 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
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!