_Que_ desirez-vous? _What do you wish?_
_Que_ dit-on? _What do people say?_
8. _Quoi_, what, is invariable and used only of things; it may be used
absolutely or relatively.
Il y avait je ne sais _quoi_ dans son caractère qui me déplaisait,
_There was something in his character which displeased me._
Je ne sais à _quoi_ vous pensez,
_I know not of what you think_.
9. _Dont_, whose, of whom, of which, used for persons and things, is
invariable.
Je parle des parents _dont_ l'enfant s'est noyé hier,
_I speak of the parents whose child was drowned yesterday_.
_Ce dont_ vous parliez hier est arrivé,
_Of what you spoke yesterday has happened_.
10. _De qui_ is preferable to _dont_ whenever in English we would rather
say _from which_ than _of which_.
Le floriste _de qui_ j'ai reçu ces fleurs,
_The florist from whom I have received these flowers_.
11. _Lequel_, _laquelle_, _lesquelles_, who, which one, relate to
persons and things, and should stand only for nominatives and
objectives, to avoid ambiguity.
Voilà deux vases, _lequel_ voulez-vous?
_Here are two vases; which one will you have?_
_Laquelle_ de vos filles est l'ainée?
_Which one of your daughters is the eldest?_
L'esclave était la propriété du maître, au pouvoir _duquel_ rien ne
pouvait le soustraire,
_The slave was the master's property, from the power of whom nothing
could extricate him_.
L'homme _à qui_ or _auquel_ je me suis adressé,
_The man to whom I have applied_.
Les femmes pour _qui_ or pour _lesquelles_ vous faites des emplettes,
_The women for whom you make some purchases_.
12. _En_, of it, of them, is invariable, and relates mostly to animals
and things.
Vous _en_ parlez, _you speak of it_.
J'_en_ ai, _I have some of it_.
(See _en_ joined to the verb _avoir_, in § 33.)
13. _Y_, to it, to them, thereto, of it, is invariable. It is used of
things. Adverbially it means there.
J'_y_ pense nuit et jour, _I think of it day and night_.
Je vous promets d'_y_ être, _I promise you to be there_.
§ 30. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS.