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French Prepositional Phrase
| Meaning | as for, regarding, in regard to | |
| Register | normal | |
| Pronunciation |  | [ka(n) tah] |
| IPA | [kã ta] | |
Usage notes: Quant à is a handy prepositional phrase for referring to something a bit emphatically. It can be followed by a noun, pronoun, verb, or clause.
Par exemple…
| Elle est indécise quant à sa proposition. | She’s undecided about his proposal. | |
| Quant au reste, je n’en sais rien. | As for the rest, I don’t know anything. | |
| Quant à ça, tu peux en être sûr. | You can be sure about that. | |
| Quant à acheter une voiture … | As for buying a car … | |
| Quant à ce qui s’est passé … | Regarding what happened … |
When a personal pronoun is needed after quant à, it must be a stressed pronoun.
| Il a dit non, mais quant à moi … | He said no, but as far as I’m concerned … | |
| Quant à eux … | As for them … |
Quant à in action
Examples of quant à in real-life videos from Lawless French Immersion:
| La France, quant à elle, a connu deux grèves colossales en 1936 et 1968. | France, for her part, had two giant strikes in 1936 and 1968. | |
| Video: What is a strike? | ||
| Les syndicats quant à eux dénoncent un coup de communication. | Meanwhile, unions denounce [it as] a PR stunt. | |
| Video: French schools to display flags in classrooms | ||
Related expression: le quant-à-soi – one’s own counsel
| Il est resté sur son quant-à-soi. | He kept his own counsel. |
Synonyms for quant à
- à l’égard de
- à propos de
- concernant
- en ce qui concerne
- pour ce qui est de
- sur le plan de
- touchant
- vis-à-vis de
Informal synonyms for quant à
- côté
- question
- rapport à
Related noun: le quant-à-soi – reserve, aloofness
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