Word
C'est moi qui me touche le menton avec le genou !
Meaning
It is me who touches my chin with my knee!
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of C'est moi qui me touche le menton avec le genou !
être
to be
ce
it / this (with être)
avec
with
qui
who
Questions & Answers about C'est moi qui me touche le menton avec le genou !
Why does it say me touche le menton instead of just using the possessive mon menton?
This is the standard French way to talk about actions performed on your own body. Instead of using a possessive adjective like mon, you use an object pronoun (here, the reflexive me) to show whose body is affected, and a definite article (here, le) before the body part. Literally, you are saying "who touches to myself the chin".
Why is it avec le genou and not avec mon genou?
The reflexive pronoun me earlier in the sentence already establishes that this entire action is happening to and with your own body. Once that context is set, you don't need possessives anymore; you just keep using definite articles (le, la, les) for any other body parts involved in the same action.
Why are the verb and pronoun in the first person (me touche) if the subject is qui?
Could I just say Je me touche le menton... instead of using C'est moi qui...?