duquel

French

Etymology

Contraction of de (“of/from”) +‎ lequel (“which”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.kɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

Pronoun

duquel m (feminine de laquelle, masculine plural desquels, feminine plural desquelles) (relative)

1. of which, of whom, from which, from whom

   Voilà l'homme à côté duquel Marc s'asseyait.

   There is the man that Marc was sitting next to.

   (literally, “There is the man at the side of whom Marc was sitting.”)

Usage notes

• Duquel is used with compound prepositions ending in de, such as à côté de, près de, en faveur de (as above).
• Duquel can also replace the possessive dont (“whose”). This is overall rare, but it is necessary when the noun phrase is preceded by any preposition: l'homme avec la femme duquel j'ai parlé (“the man with whose wife I've spoken”).

Related terms

• n'importe lequel
• équel (Louisiana)
• auquel
• dont
• lequel

See also

	–	with à	with de
m sg	lequel	auquel	duquel
f sg	laquelle	à laquelle	de laquelle
m pl	lesquels	auxquels	desquels
f pl	lesquelles	auxquelles	desquelles

• celui
• ledit

Further reading

• “duquel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• French pronouns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wiktionnaire