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The pronouns Y and EN Y is used to replace places and location expressions! EN is used for the partitif and un or une!

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1 The pronouns Y and EN Y is used to replace places and location expressions! EN is used for the partitif and un or une!

2 Basic Review Here are examples of place expressions, which are replaced with Y: À Paris, en haut de la Tour Eiffel, chez mon ami. Here are examples of partitif expressions and items: Du pain, de la glace, du stade, un crayon

3 I am going home. I am going there. He is on top of the Tour Eiffel. He is there. I have some bread. I have some.

4 Instead of saying: Tout le monde va au café. Au café is replaced by the pronoun Y. Therefore, you would say: Tout le monde y va. You would have y because you are replacing the place with y, which means there. Y pronoun

5 Instead of saying: La famille achète du pain. Du pain is replaced by the pronoun EN. Therefore, you would say: La famille en achète. You would have en because you are replacing some bread with en, which means some.. Elle va acheter deux stylos. Elle va en acheter deux. You may keep the number of items at the end of the sentence to be more specific. EN pronoun

6 Rule One The Y/EN precedes the verb -in the present tense -in the past tense Ex. Il mange du raisin rouge. Il a mangé du raisin vert. Il en mange. Il en a mangé.

7 Rule Two Y/EN precedes -the infinitive of a futur proche construction Ex. Elle va monter en haut de lArc de Triomphe. Elle va y monter.. Elle va faire des devoirs. Elle va en faire.

8 Rule Three Y/EN -attaches to the end of the verb with a hyphen for a positive command Ex. Allez chez moi! Allez-y! Achète du pain. Achètes-en!

9 Rule Four Y/EN -precedes the verb in a negative command Ex. Ne montez pas en haut de la Tour Eiffel! N y montez pas! Nachète pas de café. Nen achète pas.


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