Question

how can I differentiate
she sees her mother - elle voit sa mère
from
she sees his mother - elle voit sa mère?
I cannot say 'elle voit son mère' since mère is feminine, right?

Answers

Thank you for using the Jiskha Homework Help Forum. Yes, at first that seems confusiong because "elle voit sa mère" could be either = she sees HIS mother OR she sees HER mother; even she sees ITS mother. To clarify that you can use a Disjunctive or Stress pronoun .

Elle voit la mère d'elle. (clear it's her mother.)
Elle voit la mère de lui. (Clear it's his mother.)

Those Disjunctive/Stress Pronouns are:
moi, toi, lui, elle, nousn,vous, eux, elles
They are used after a preposition, when the pronoun has no verb expressed, in a com pound subject or object, for emphasis, after ce + être, with -même (s) to express the English -self (-selves).

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merci beaucoup

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