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Repeating a name in every sentence gets awkward fast: "Marie is tired. Marie is hungry. Marie is going home." French fixes this with a pronom personnel, a small word replacing the person doing the action. Marie becomes elle: "Elle est fatiguee." Speaking about yourself? Use je. For one friend, tu means you. For one person politely, or several people, use vous. For more than one speaker, use nous-or, in everyday French, often on. For a group, ils means they for a masculine or mixed group; elles is they for an all-feminine group. Il means he, and elle means she. Here's the turn: a pronoun is not just a shorter name. It tells the verb who acts, so the verb changes. "Je suis Alex. Elle est mon amie. Nous parlons francais." No repeated names. Choose who acts, put this pronoun before the verb, and conversation becomes easier to follow.