sleepyponi

[eternal elbow]

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[sudden sentinel]

En replaces any noun introduced by the preposition "de".

Je rêve d'une voiture => J'en rêve
J'ai besoin de crayons => J'en ai besoin

[cloud thunder]

What happens to the noun at the end?

[nocturne harness]

It's replaced by en

I dream of a car = i dream of it

Je rêve d'une voiture = j'en rêve

[sudden sentinel]

The point of a pronoun is to make a reference to a particular noun it replaces.

It etymologically stands in for a noun.

[cloud thunder]

ohh i underestand, thank you !

[drifting jackal]

and y is the same thing with à+thing

J’adore ça jouer à ce jeu !
J’adore ça y jouer

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_xe_Zz2mwkc&si=4r726AstSNxV0ypI

[cloud thunder]

Thank you!

Another thing, when it's negative, for "du," "de la," "de l' ", and "des," do we always change it to "de" and "d' "?

[sudden sentinel]

Yep.

[cloud thunder]

But there were a few sentences last time that didnt use de or d'

From my class

[sudden sentinel]

Such as? The exceptions I think of are with the verb être (or another state verb) or when you contrast something.

[cloud thunder]

Oh yes that