Introducing someone: voici, voilà, c’est in French

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Introducing someone: voici, voilà, c'est

When we want to introduce or present someone or something, we use:

voici or voilà + noun

This is Théo, my friend.

Here are your croissants!

c'est or ce sont with a noun or a tonic pronoun PRONOMS TONIQUES

This woman is my mother (literally, “this woman, this is my mother”)

-Hello, who's this? -It's me, Nadia.

These two girls, they're my sisters.

Notes

  • We say C'est qui ? (colloquial) or Qui est-ce ? to ask who someone is.

-Who is it? -It's us!

-Who is it? -It's Madame Belamour.

Note:
We use c'est + singular and ce sont + plural. However, in everyday spoken French we often hear c'est + plural.

-Who ate the bread? Was it you? -Oh no, it was them!

-Who is it? -It's my parents. 


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