Chez; Voici; Voilà
Chez (au domicile de – at somebody’s place – home, at home, at someone’s house, at the home of) is a preposition. It is used to indicate a place or professions. It means (au magasin, cabinet de) Chez is used to mean (dans la famille de, dans le pays, la region de, le groupe, parmi - among, dans la personalité, dans l’œuvre de – in)
Examples / Exemples:
Bienvenue chez moi – Welcome to my home
Bienvenue chez nous – Welcome to our home
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Voici – Here is, this is. C’est une préposition. Example: Voici mes parents – Here are my parents. Use voici to make a presentation or to present somebody or something.
Example: Voici la clé de la voiture. Tu conduis maintenant – Here is the key to the car. You drive now.
Voici ma fille – Here is my daughter / She is my daughter.
Voilà – That’s why, that is why, there’s why (adv.)
Voilà – There is, there are
Example: Voilà deux mois que je travaille ici – I have been here for two months.
Voilà ma mère – Here comes my mother
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