How And When To Use The French Pronouns Y And EN // French Grammar Course // Lesson 33

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
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[MPraveenkumar-oqzi]

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[frankfletes]

Love it. Thanks. Now, in what of your many lessons do you cover the numbers?

[phyzition]

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!

[mikelocke]

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 ?

[thomashughes]

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[SaharaGim]

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?”

[rnabil]

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.

[gregguillot]

Hi, Dylane. I have a question for you. Are 'avoir envie' and 'vouloir' synonyms? Interchangeable? Thx!