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[ionic frost]

Please be patient

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[vocal socket]

No, you did not conjugate the verb "être", so your sentence would mean "He be not at that point"

And "à ceci" wouldn't work in this case. "en être" is usually followed by a conceptual location rather than a thing, so you could replace "à ceci" with "là".

With that in mind, how would you fix your sentence?

[rain violet]

would "il n'en a pas encore là" be better?

[vocal socket]

"a" is the third person singular conjugation of the verb "avoir"

You need the verb "être"

[rain violet]

oh shit yeah

il n'en est pas encore là

[vocal socket]

Perfect. That does means "He's not at that point in his life yet" (or in whatever process is implied by the context)

[rain violet]

and so if the location was physical, i.e not using the "en" before "être" would we use à ceci/à cela?

[vocal socket]

Hmm I'm not sure what exactly you're asking.
What would an example of that look like in English?

[rain violet]

for example:
"has he passed the lake yet."
"no, he's not at that yet."

[vocal socket]

Oh, right.

It would still be a location, but it wouldn't use the "en être" phrase anymore.

So to say "he's not there yet" you could say "Il n'y est pas encore", where "y" is a pronoun referring back to the previously mentioned location.

[rain violet]

ah right, think i was just overcomplicating the sentence

thank you for clearing it up