Timeline for Using both « on {we} » and « on {they} » in a single sentence
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| Dec 5, 2016 at 22:51 | comment | added | Stéphane Gimenez | @LUNA. You can understand it as "people" in this case, but on has different uses. It can for example be used sarcastically to refer to a very specific person indirectly (or even to yourself). | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 22:43 | comment | added | Con-gras-tue-les-chiens | @StéphaneGimenez Hi. Is it acceptable to translate my example sentence in two different ways: "someone {only 1 person of indefinite nature} used to tease us" or "they {multiple people of indefinite nature} used to tease us". (Just for the sake of more clearly showing what the second "on" refers to) Merci. | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 22:11 | comment | added | Stéphane Gimenez | On is a personnal pronoun, although an indefinite one. | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 15:42 | comment | added | Teleporting Goat | It's exactly what OP meant... | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 15:19 | history | answered | Nico Mezeret | CC BY-SA 3.0 |