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Coffee Break French

CBF 2:21 | Looking at the pronouns y and en

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🗓️ 25 July 2009

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s lesson we look at two tiny pronouns which can cause some confusion for French learners: y and en. Please note that lesson 21 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 61 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.


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0:00.0

Now, in lesson 61, we're going to be looking at two very small words. These words are

0:18.6

E, which is built Y and A, which is built E N. And these are quite tricky words to use.

0:26.5

I've come across them before, but in this lesson, we're going to be learning how to use them.

0:30.8

I hope that you find this lesson useful.

0:32.8

So, Anna, what have you done this week?

0:49.4

This week, I'm going to go to Germany.

0:53.4

Germany? Very well, it's not bad. So, you're going to go with who?

0:59.6

I'm going to go with my brother and my sister. Very well, and what have you done in Germany?

1:09.6

We've done a lot of things. We're going to a concert. A concert? Who?

1:18.0

de Morse.

1:19.1

Ah, bon, vous aimez donc la musique de Morse?

1:23.1

Oui, nous aimons. Morsez beaucoup.

1:26.1

Very well. Okay. I hope everybody was following that. And it's obviously been to Germany to

1:31.7

a concert, a Morse concert. Now, we were talking about what Anna had done in Germany.

1:38.4

Qu'est-ce que tu as fait en Allemagne? Okay, what have you done or what did you do using the

1:44.7

perfect tense? Now, I'm going to change this slightly and I'm going to ask Anna, qu'est-ce que

1:50.5

tu es fait? Qu'est-ce que tu es fait? Now, that e in there is a tiny little word that's

1:59.6

spelled y, just y on its own and it means there. So, qu'est-ce que tu es fait? What did you do there?

2:09.6

So, Anna, qu'est-ce que tu es fait? Okay, so do you want me to include e in my answer?

2:16.7

Okay, try it, yeah. If you can't do that, try saying we did lots of things there.

2:22.5

Okay, so we knew, e avant fait beaucoup de choses?

2:32.1

Très bien, nous y avons fait beaucoup de choses. So, the e comes before the verb. In this case,

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