How And When To Use The French Pronouns Y And EN // French Grammar Course // Lesson 33
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- How and when to use the pronouns Y and EN.
Y will replace a place, mostly starting with a preposition such as à - en - dans - chez, or a thing starting with the preposition à.
EN will replace a group of words starting with de. It can be the preposition de, the expression of quantity with de, or a group of words including a partitive article (du - de la - de - des - ...)
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0:00 Intro
00:43 Y for places
02:19 & for things
03:48 Expressions with Y
04:08 The pronoun EN
05:59 Verbs with EN
07:25 Expressions with EN
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At last I now fully realise the importance of the lists of verbs taking à or de. Great explanation for Y and EN, I could never really understand which one to use before now. One question though, the verbs manger, sortir and donner are not on the list for needing de, is the "manger de" and "sortir de" more of an expression or special case ?
Correct, they are not because they are not always followed by de, more often by a partitive article :) Besides Sortir, which I thought was, I will add it :)
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Thank you for another great lesson! I have a question about exercise 4.11 point 6 in the book: “Tu as pensé à ta pauvre sœur?” I thought the pronoun Y could only replace a thing/place, not a person, so I’m wondering if the sentence “Tu y as pensé?” is correct or if the emphatic pronoun should be used instead: “Tu as pensé à elle?”
I will have to go check that one 😨
Hi Dylane,
Thanks for the lesseon. It's very helpful.
I have a question about Ex 4.11 No. 6, can i use lui instead of y, therefore "Tu lui as pensé."?
No because penser can not be used with an indirect object pronoun ;)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylaneMerci pour votre réponse.
dylane i didnt get why the object was hidden too when you transformed the a en dans chez can you explain thaat ?????
Can you give me a time in the video? Thank you :)
Hello, thanks for you video, for using COD, y and en, I had some situation, instead of describing it I want to give some examples and you tell me if I am correct or not.
First-let’s say mam and her son Andrew:
Mam : est-ce qu’il y a des pommes ?
Andrew : Non Mama.
Mam : Peux-tu en acheter ?
Then Andrew bought some apples, and came back
Andrew : Mam, j’ai acheté des pommes.
Mam : peux-tu les obtenir ?
The moment he bought the apples it became definite, so the COD can be replaced some times by COP or en, depends of the sequence of talk.
Another example for this situations, let’s say two friends are talking about the apples that they saw day before in the shop, and if one of them said “je les ai acheté”, it means he bought all the apples in this shop, while if he said “j’en ai acheté” this means he bought some of it.
Am I correct? I will wait for your answer, so I can continue with next examples.
Bonjour, Dylane. May I ask why is “y” in the sentence > is put between vais and réchléchir instead of j’y? Is it because the main verb is réchléchir? Merci.
You are right Joshua, réfléchir is the main verb, and the one with the preposition = réfléchir à - therefore y is before it :)
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Quick question: En is all about the preposition de, but I'm listening to some french disney songs right now, where they are singing;
Je saurai t’aimer
J’en ai rêvé
Why are they using 'en' when there is no de? And why are they not using le?
Later the guy sings:
Je saurai t’aimer
Tu l’as rêvé
Here he uses le instead of en 🤔
It's all about the verb Rêver and what follows it.
Rêver de (faire) quelque chose - To dream to do something = en
Rêver quelque chose (less commun) = Le
I hope it helps :)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane Ah that makes sense, thx!
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane But there is another one that I dont understand;
Prince Ali, plus fort que lui
Je n’en connais pas
Is en referring to a person here?
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Wow Wow Wow, merci beaucoup Dylane! Comme un flamand qui (veut) parle(r) régulièrement français j'ai eu beaucoup des difficultés avec Y et EN. Vous m'avez bien aidé!
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Salut Dylane! J'ai une question avec Y, quand nous utilisons Y pour remplacer des lieux. Est-ce que vous pouvez m'aider avec cet exemple?
Es-tu dans la cuisine?
où pouvons nous mettre le Y ici?
Y es-tu ?
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Hi, I thought it is 'J'y vais réfléchir' At 3:20. Is it a wrong structure?
J'y vais = I am going there
Je vais y réfléchir - I am going to think about it.
The verb taking Y is "réfléchir à", not aller ;)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane Merci beaucoup pour votre réponse.
Bonjour. Does this make any sense to you?
"C’est un gâteau brioché. Et quand il est cuit, on y ajoute du sirop de sucre à l’alcool."
1. I do not understand the y, is it replacing gâteau even though there is no preposition à introducing it?
2. "Et quand il est cuit" - is that passive voice using être and the past participle of cuire?
Merci
Maybe I figured out question 2 - I just learned that the past participle can be used as an adjective, so "il est cuit" - cuit is the p.p. and is being used as an adjective, no passive voice, C'est ca? I still do not understand the y though.
You got the second one :) As of the first one, Y is used to replace a place, even if it's the top of a cake, with the préposition à. Ajouter au gâteau = y ajouter :)
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@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane Ok, I think I understand - so even though she did not use the preposition à in the previous sentence we can still use y because it fits with the verb being used. Merci beaucoup.
Bonjour. May I ask why not "J'ai besoin du temps" as le temps is masculin?🤔
Avoir besoin de temps, Avoir besoin de toi, Avoir besoin de dormir, etc. Always de in this case :)
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Je dois pratiquer 😅
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Ihave the same question as Solveig. Exercise 4.11, number 6. Can it be : tu as pensé à elle
Lucy it should be à elle, definitely. I have changed it since. It's a mistake that native French do a lot, so it went through the cracks with me and the proofreader 😅
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Merci Anu :)
What's the difference between vouloir and avoir envie de? Is it like vouloir is more demanding and envie is desirable? Maybe I'm just getting mixed up between the two
They are similar, you can use one or the other ;)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane oh okay, thanks! ^.^
I have a doubt. Why is it "Je vais y réfléchir" but not "J'y vais réfléchir"? l'explication, s'il vous plait?
It's always before the verb it refers to. Réfléchir à = y réfléchir :)
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But if you are speaking about a specific object such as un style you would say donne-le á Jean?
Yes but that's not the subject of this video ;)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane desolé just wanted to make sure I was getting the concept right. Merci!
@@LisbonizedYes, yes get it right 🙄
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ooof this is very difficult i hope it doesnt get more difficult than this
With practice you will be ok :)
For “Je suis en train de.. “ and “ Je suis en route “. I thought “en” here is a preposition and it’s not an example of “en” the pronoun.
I like to add examples and expressions in the lesson about the word but this is true I should have added a not about it ;)
cant they just do a reform for this dumb spelling system😤…
You can't spell Y and EN?
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane i can spell y and en but what about the rest you know almost nothing is spelled as readed and those silent letters make it impossible for me… well yes i know that english is not so different at this point but it is way more simpler that most time i can guess how to write the word correctly at least those silent letter almost doesn't exist in english unlike the french when half of the letters in the word gets writed but not readed…