je (j’)

• Unlike the English pronoun ‘I’, je is not capitalized unless it begins a sentence.
• Attention: Je becomes j’ in front of a vowel! 

tu

• The pronoun tu is singular and, importantly, informal.
• Use tu to address people your own age and those you know well.

il

elle

• Il refers to a singular, masculin person or object.
• Elle refers to a singular, feminine person or object.
• Il and elle can also express ‘it’ depending on the sentence.

eil

• The singular, gender-neutral pronoun (neither masculin nor feminin).
• Use this when in doubt of someone’s gender and/or preference.

on

• The pronoun on means ‘one’.
• On often replaces ‘nous’ in spoken French: On est amis (We are friends!).

nous

• The general form for “we” which includes the speaker and at least one other person.

vous

• The pronoun vous is conjugated with a plural verb so it obviously refers to more than one person.
• However, it is also the customary form of address when you are talking to only one person you do not know well or in a formal situation. 

ils

elles

• Ils and elles are similar to il and elle since they agree with the gender of the noun they replace. Ils and elles may refer to people or things.
• Elles is used to mean ‘they’ if it replaces people who are all women or objects that are all feminine in gender.
• For a mixed group of masculine and feminine objects or people, use ils as a default.

eils

• The plural gender-neutral pronoun (neither masculin nor feminin).