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floral fogBOT Oct 9, 2024, 3:56 AM

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mortal ivy Oct 9, 2024, 4:02 AM

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they're angry with me

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'en vouloir' is a fixed expression, you can look that up

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like you mentioned there are a ton of expressions with en, s'en etc but you can look them up on wordreference

civic path Oct 11, 2024, 10:22 AM

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https://french.stackexchange.com/questions/22726/what-is-the-origin-of-en-vouloir

French Language Stack Exchange

What is the origin of en vouloir?

I met an expression en vouloir in two sentences coming from Harry Potter and Le Petit Prince:

Il ne pouvait pas lui en vouloir.
Il ne faut pas leur en vouloir.

When I found out that it means to b...

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"i don't want of anything against you"
not so different from "I don't have anything against you"

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it still is de

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