#Owen
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Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.
Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.
In French it's very common to emphasize a subject or an object by repeating it twice: once as a pronoun, and once as a full word. This is called "dislocation".
For example:
- Moi, j'adore la musique
- Elle est où, ta mère ?
- Il est vraiment pourri, ce jeu.
- Il en a fait quoi, de ton argent, ce taré ?
The sentence in your screenshot is another example of that, with an extra quirk.
As you probably know, when you're talking about a certain number of a previously mentioned thing, you ned the pronoun "en" to refer back to that thing.
- Il y a une coalition ==> Il y en a une
In these cases, when dislocation is used, the full word is repeated with a "de" in front of it, probably as a side effect of the pronoun "en" normally being associated with things that are introduced by "de".
Hence "Il y en a une, de coalition"