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?

Answer 1

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).

Mme

Answer 2

merci beaucoup