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savoir davantage de choses sur [...]

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Know more of the

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Know more [things] about

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okay

Okay so why did the en get used here?

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.

sorry if I am a bit slow

I am new to language learning in general

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Because "de + thing" is replaced with "en"

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OHH

Cuz de means of the thing

right

or from

I want to know more of the anemo archon

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I get it

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Or whatever preposition or lack thereof english has

In this case English doesn't use a preposition

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Okay that helped

Ty very much

!

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Np!

"y" is similar, but for things introduced by "à" (sometimes other things if it's a location, but usually à)

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I saw that in a dialogue already

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Nice

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can I ask another question?

Its about how sentences get put together

in french

if you could help with that @vapid elbow

For me the sentence says

I wondered if you were me following

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"I was wondering if you were going to follow me"

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okay

in that case

what does me mean

in this sentence

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"me", object of "follow"

Unless you mean the one for se demander

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That one aswell

if possible

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Se demander = to wonder, lit. "To ask oneself"

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Okay

alright so the sentence if you would read it in an english way

goes like this

I was wondering if you were me following (if you read it in the english way)

In french it would be following me

if I get that right

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More or less

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Okay

I think that I

get it

just in case

is there a case

where the me

comes after the verb of following

or is it always beofre

before

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The ones before are called "pronoms conjoints", the ones after are called "pronoms disjoints". Unfortunately there isn't a clear, solid rule on when one is used over the other, and you'll get various answers if you try to ask. Generally, pronoms conjoints are used when the verb is mostly used to refer to people, while pronoms disjoints tend to be used if it's more ambiguously used or mostly used to refer to objects

But you'll likely just pick it up as you go

I never learned about this at all until other learners began asking me, I never even noticed it in all my years of learning french and just picked up on it naturally

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