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[strange cliff]

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[past flint]

That's just "il y a" but with "commencer" to indicate that it's the beginning.

Il y a des fleurs dans le jardin => Il commence à y avoir des fleurs dans le jardin.

Correct me if I'm wrong, you can have a similar structure in English, where you combine the impersonal "there is" with "starts to".
"There even starts to be online tests."

[half brook]

no you're completely right

I get it now ty

[past flint]

And to clarify, without "y", you can't have an impersonal subject. "Il commence à avoir des examens en ligne" would need a subject, for example "le lycée commence à avoir des examens en ligne"

[half brook]

Yeah that was what I was confused about, I thought "il commencait meme a avoir" had the same effect

thanks

[past flint]

glad that helped 🙂

[half brook]

merci!

[past flint]

And it's an understandable confusion to have, it's not often that "il y a" is split up like that. I can't think of another similar situation.

[rare plume]

Il doit y avoir, il peut y avoir, il va y avoir, etc.

[hushed jungle]

he needs to have, he might have, he will have. Are these correct?

"il doit avoir" means "he needs to have"
but "il doit y avoir" "he needs to have them" right?