jowiltyk

[lavish gate]

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[sharp saffron]

Also about the use of "y". Commonly used in "il y a" and "on y va". Whats its meaning and how can i use it?

[south vigil]

y is the contraction;
of an indirect object : Je pense à lui ==> J'y pense
or an adverbial phrase: Je tombe par terre ==> J'y tombe
or a locative phrase : je vais à paris ==> J'y vais
in form of a pronoun.

in this case "il y a" someone has something, somewhere, y essentially having the meaning of "Ici", where this somewhere could be indefinitely large.

For the most part, it is a locution to say "there is". these words are glued together and mostly don't have meaning individually in this context, but if you stretch it a little, you could see it as I said a bit earlier, but it's not 100% accurate.

[sharp saffron]

im not rlly sure what that means but ill keep that in mind while im learning, i think im not that advanced yet 😅 thanks!

but in short its basically like a word that can take multiple meanings depends on the situation right?

[south vigil]

Let's translate it to english.

Je pense à lui ==> I'm thinking of him
J'y pense (where y = à lui) ==> I'm thinking of him

It works just as it does for other pronouns like him ==> him refers to something else doesn't it, same thing for y, it can replace particular portions of a sentence. But it's probably a little too early to learn about object pronouns.

As for chercher, outside of the regular meaning I can't think of any possible meaning other than the colloquial mind your business of "cherche pas*.

[sharp saffron]

ahh i see, understand it now