duquel
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dy.kɛl/
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Pronoun
duquel m (feminine de laquelle, masculine plural desquels, feminine plural desquelles) (relative)
- of which, of whom, from which, from whom
- Voilà l’homme à côté duquel Marc s’asseyait.
- There is the man next to whom Marc was sitting.
Usage notes
- Duquel is used with compound prepositions ending in de, such as à côté de, près de, en faveur de (as above).
- Duquel can also replace the possessive dont (“whose”). This is overall rare, but it is necessary when the noun phrase is preceded by any preposition: l'homme avec la femme duquel j'ai parlé (“the man with whose wife I've spoken”).
Further reading
- “duquel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- French pronouns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Wiktionnaire
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