Breakdown of Il exprime publiquement sa haine envers autrui.
il
he
son
his/her/its (son, sa, ses)
exprimer
to express
envers
towards (behavior, attitude)
Questions & Answers about Il exprime publiquement sa haine envers autrui.
Why use autrui here instead of les autres?
Autrui is an invariable pronoun that means 'other people in general' or 'one's fellow man.' It is almost exclusively used after a preposition (like envers, de, or à) and implies a moral, legal, or abstract context. While les autres is more common in everyday speech and can refer to specific groups, autrui fits perfectly here with the broad, abstract concept of expressing hatred.
Why is envers used for 'towards' rather than vers?
Since haine starts with an H, why doesn't it become son haine just like we say son histoire?
The word haine begins with an aspirated H (h aspiré), which means it acts like a regular consonant and blocks elision or vowel shifts. Because of this, you use the regular feminine possessive sa haine instead of switching to son for ease of pronunciation, just as you say la haine rather than l'haine.
Why is publiquement placed right after the verb instead of at the end of the sentence?