User:Qehath/u:falldev


 * and :
 * Despite an apparent similarity between certain senses of the verbs and, both expressions of necessity, they differ in several ways. Where  is an impersonal verb indicating necessity, sometimes with a sense of utility or propriety, roughly corresponding to the English phrase "", , fully conjugated according to person and number and approximately equivalent to "", often adds a sense of obligation to that of necessity. The English and French are not completely parallel: in English,  is usually more forceful and formal than , but in French it is often  that carries more force and, potentially, more formality.
 * As mentioned, while is fully conjugated personal verb,  is an impersonal verb, being conjugated only in the third-person singular, usually having the neutral impersonal pronoun  for its grammatical subject. In formal language, it is sometimes accompanied by a personal pronoun in dative (indirect object) form to identify the one to whom falls the necessity expressed by the verb to which  refers. On the subject of the subordinate verb,  is followed by an infinitive verb to identify the obligation, but  allows either an infinitive or subordinate clause starting with the conjunction  and having a subjunctive verbal nucleus. (This construction is not used if  has an indirect object, in which case only an infinitive structure is possible.)
 * Compare the following examples: