"Il est tombé amoureux après lui avoir dit bonjour."
Translation:He fell in love after saying hello to her.
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"Il est tombè amoureux après lui avoir dit bonjour"
Isn't it possible to understand that he fell in love after the speaker said him "bonjour"? Thanks for claryfying, not native here.
No; avoir being in the infinitive means that the subject is the same as in the first clause -- so, the one who fell in love is the same one who said hello. If he fell in love after she said hello to him, then this would be: « Il est tombé amoureux après qu'elle lui a dit bonjour. »
Marked wrong for using quotation marks! « Il est tombé amoureux après lui avoir dit "Bonjour".»
French doesn't use quotation marks; it uses guillemets to indicate speech («»). But the guillemets aren't necessary here because bonjour is acting like a noun to refer to a general greeting, just like "hello" in "He fell in love after saying hello to her."
