Learn French: Quant à lui, il a délégué la mise en œuvre sans nous consulter. - As for him, he delegated the implementation without consulting us.

Quant à lui, il a délégué la mise en œuvre sans nous consulter.

As for him, he delegated the implementation without consulting us.

Breakdown of Quant à lui, il a délégué la mise en œuvre sans nous consulter.

nous

we / us (object pronoun)

lui

him / to him / to her (indirect object)

sans

without

Questions & Answers about Quant à lui, il a délégué la mise en œuvre sans nous consulter.

Why do we use lui after quant à instead of il?

Quant à (as for) functions as a preposition. In French, prepositions must always be followed by a stressed pronoun (also called a disjunctive pronoun), such as moi, toi, lui, or elle. You cannot use a subject pronoun like il directly after a preposition.

Could I use the other phrase from this lesson, en ce qui concerne, to say the same thing?

Yes, but the grammar structure changes. You would say En ce qui le concerne (Regarding him / As far as he is concerned). Because concerne is a verb, it requires the direct object pronoun le placed before it, rather than taking the stressed pronoun lui.

Where does the noun phrase la mise en œuvre come from?

It is the noun equivalent of the verbal expression mettre en œuvre, which means to implement, to apply, or to put into action. Literally translating as the putting into work, la mise en œuvre is the standard and professional French term for the implementation.

Why is it sans nous consulter instead of using a conjugated verb?

In French, when a preposition like sans (without), pour (for/in order to), or de (of/to) is followed directly by an action, that verb must remain in the infinitive form (consulter). The object pronoun nous is always placed directly before the infinitive it belongs to.