This translation caught my attention as number doesn't agree:
Le duc et la duchesse accueilleront la Reine comme il se doit.The Duke and Duchess will greet the Queen as one should.
Why would this not be "comme on se doit" ? for "as one should"
use of il to mean the impersonal one
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Bill C.Kwiziq community member
use of il to mean the impersonal one
This question relates to:French lesson "Conjugate cueillir and derivatives in the future tense in French (Le Futur Simple)"
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Bill,
The French phrase is the original and therefore ‘ correct ‘ expression.
The translation is one English interpretation of the meaning of the fixed French expression ‘ comme il se doit ‘ in the context given.
By definition, impersonal verb expressions don’t vary for ‘ number ‘.
See definitions and links below :
“. se devoirverbe pronominal Conjugaison
Comme il se doit, comme c'est l'usage ou comme on pouvait le prévoir.
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/devoir/25035#locution
“ comme il se doit naturally, of course, as was right and proper “
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/expressions/devoir-expressions/
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/impersonal-verbs/
Bill C. asked:
use of il to mean the impersonal one
This translation caught my attention as number doesn't agree:
Le duc et la duchesse accueilleront la Reine comme il se doit.The Duke and Duchess will greet the Queen as one should.
Why would this not be "comme on se doit" ? for "as one should"
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