English guy explains how to understand EN in French - EN and Y in French pronoun series

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If you're racking (wracking?) your brain to figure out how to understand EN in French, then I hope this video is for you! I've been battling French pronouns and grammar in general for the past 6 years and I've used my own logic to figure out the most important and useful rules.
Now I get to explain them to you guys in plain English.
EN can be many things in French, which is what can make it super confusing, but when it's an object pronoun (i.e. it's replaced an object in a sentence) there are some simple rules or guidelines to follow which help to understand when to use EN and when not to.
This is the first in a series on EN and Y in French. Y will be covered next week!
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0:00 Intro
0:41 Title sequence
2:05 DE and EN
2:58 DE as SOME
5:08 DE as a preposition
9:08 DE "caché"
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@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Free summary PDF of what you just learned: frenchinplainsight.com/en-explained Donne-moi une phrase avec le pronom complément d'objet EN 👇 Give me a sentence with the object pronoun EN 👇

@knishkasood2089 3 жыл бұрын

Sir please explain difference between tres,trop ,beaucoup.

@jayjay8490 3 жыл бұрын

Tu as acheté des pommes ? Oui, j'en ai acheté cinq.

@knishkasood2089 3 жыл бұрын

Best explanation ever.Your explanation made the whole concept crystal clear .merci beaucoup.À bientôt.

@Andrea-eg6ro 2 жыл бұрын

Merci beaucoup Alex, another great video!

@amandined1617 2 жыл бұрын

As a native French speaker, I had no idea some of these very small words might be so complicated to get your head around. I'm impressed about your explanations and glad I don't have to think about these rules this much.

@meganmartinaux6407 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much, this video helped a lot a lot a lot. Wow, what a difficult thing to explain and you nailed it, still have to continue your series, made notes etc. Well done Alex, loved your twin lol

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Now you see a 10th of what goes on in my head!

@moisesvallejo4095 4 ай бұрын

Wow! Tu es génial! Tu as du talent pour expliquer les choses!

@eduardoindigo1500 6 ай бұрын

WOW, and again WOW. This video was pretty interesting, I mean it's really short for all the sustancious content you're putting on it, and at the same time it was explicit and revealing, I had to admit I've been struggling with these pronouns for a long time, and once I start talking I'm not really sure how to use them, my logic as spanish (native speaker) interfers to the point I forget I must use them, or simply I don't feel confident about when to use them, now you helped me to realize the french logic

@jayjay8490 3 жыл бұрын

Merci pour cette vidéo. Vous êtes vraiment gentil for accepting to share knowledge.

@MojisolaShodipe 8 ай бұрын

Great teaching. Thank you!

@tjcrossley_ 3 жыл бұрын

I look forward to the next one, this is one of the harder subjects I think, these pronouns.

@laurafitzpatrick4353 2 жыл бұрын

You are an amazing french teacher! You explain things so well - things that have puzzled me for ages. Ive been learning for 3-4 years

@FrenchinPlainSight 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that Laura. Thanks so much for your comment!

@jamdonut 3 жыл бұрын

Very helpful! Merci alex. Chaque jour j'améliore et tu m'aider tres beaucoup merciiii! Une autre video tres utilise

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Je t'en prie Adam ! Continue comme ça !

@mohammedtaqi9508 3 жыл бұрын

un grand merci Alex! Comme d'hab c'est très pratique!

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Merci Mohammed. Heureux qu'elle t'ait plu !

@MetaMM 3 жыл бұрын

Best teaching, thank you.

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

@FredKongo 3 жыл бұрын

Mon Dieu! Alex, that was, dare I say, the BEST explanation to which I have ever listened re: the mystery of "de" and "des" to express /define quantity in French and then correspondingly how to use "en" across a heap of scenarios.

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making my day first thing in the morning, Mike. To be honest I started out thinking I had it really clear but then it started to get technical and I wondered if I would lose some people!

@jsuisEla Жыл бұрын

ooooh i just get it now, the t'en mangent example was brilliant, i was like why would i wanna add en. Thank you sp much

@vini6699 3 жыл бұрын

me, a Brazilian Portuguese speaker learning French through an English video lol! Merci pour cette video, vous avez m'aidé beaucoup !!! :)

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Haha. You're welcome

@olgazhelvakova1984 Жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thanks a lot!

@FrenchinPlainSight Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Olga!

@alyssacrisostomo2875 3 жыл бұрын

MERCI ALEX! This video is helping drill this pronoun in my mind! Looking forward to more!

@mariaabc117 Жыл бұрын

Oui, j'en veux plus SVP. Merci

@Machobravo 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@sempriestrhetoric3843 2 жыл бұрын

At 08:20 , the correct grammatical term here would be the 'Prepositional phrase' (Pp).

@ae.lorenz076 Жыл бұрын

It seems really similar to the italian "ne" French: j'en veux Italian: ne voglio

@TheTomous 2 жыл бұрын

Very well explained! Thanks a lot :)

@FrenchinPlainSight 2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome, Tom!

@nawarnawar5822 3 жыл бұрын

Hi . Too much information has been given here but I think I'm getting familiar with ' en' after watching this video. I look forward to watching your next lesson on ' y'.

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Too much?

@nawarnawar5822 3 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight yes because it's not easy for a beginner, like me, to fully understand all these uses of ' en' in one lesson. Anyway this video will definitely improve my understanding of this magic ' en'

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

@@nawarnawar5822 ah yes. You should know that my lessons aren't intended for beginners. Don't worry about EN.

@Edabee405 2 жыл бұрын

“Too much information”? Well, thank your lucky stars something so valuable is offered for free in such abundance, instead of bleating about it being “too much”, you ingrate! 😅

@StorytellingHeadshots Жыл бұрын

Welcome! But know that this channel is directed toward intermediate learners… And that is a great gift because there seems to be a glut of material on the Internet for beginners in French just planning a vacation and not as much that is for people who are beyond basics and grappling with the challenge of ‘leveling up” especially in more advanced conversational mechanics . For those of us working on the intermediate level this channel is an absolute godsend. Alex! Thank you for your great work and don’t change. We need you! ❤️

@joolzcj 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there.Thanks very much for this. Well explained. I'm a bit confused, though, that you say 'en' has to replace 'de' + something. What if someone asks me, "As-tu un chapeau?" I could answer, "Oui, j'en ai un." ("Yes, I have one ['of them'' is implied]), but there is no 'de' in this example. Where would you say the 'de' was hidden here, please? Cheers

@FrenchinPlainSight 2 жыл бұрын

Yes that could've been better explained I think but you've hit the nail on the head. The de is implied. It's always involved in some way, implicitly or explicitly. Well done Julia. :)

@JasonSchoeller 3 жыл бұрын

Merci Alex! En parlant de quantité, je bien comprends《en》 mais il y a quelques phrases qui me confonds encore. 《... Pour en venir à mon histoire...》et 《La terre nous en apprend plus long sur nous que tous les livres...》 Ils me confondent encore, après avoir même cherché dans un dictionnaire. Qu'en pensez-vous ?

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Salut Jason. Bon, il faut savoir qu'il existe beaucoup d'expressions où le EN est devenu fixe, c'est-à-dire qu'il faut qu'il soit présent peu importe le reste de la phrase. Je ne sais pas comment un dictionnaire pourrait t'aider avec ces deux phrases d'exemples que tu m'as données. La deuxième est une citation de Saint-Exupery n'est-ce pas ? J'aurais dit que "en" venait de "apprendre de quelque chose" mais je crois pas car ici "sur" sert de la traduction de "about". Je prends celle-là comme elle est car elle est vielle ! Quant à la première, c'est une supposition mais "venir de" = come from. Deepl traduit "Pour en venir à mon histoire" par "To get to my story". Peut-être qu'en français officiel, il faut inclure d'où tu viens quand tu parles d'une destination. Genre, "pour venir de ce sujet à mon histoire.". Bon, c'est ce que je trouve si j'utilise ma logique. Continue à y réfléchir si tu veux et dis-moi si tu trouves quelque chose de plus concret s'il te plaît !

@ainereynolds7736 2 жыл бұрын

t'appris de la nouvelle grammaire aujourdhui? Oui j'en appris!

@FrenchinPlainSight 2 жыл бұрын

Hehe. J'en suis content Aine. Attention: Tu aurais dû utiliser le passé composé. Tu as appris de la nouvelle grammaire aujourd'hui ? Oui, j'en ai appris !

@ashlyn8994 2 жыл бұрын

i really liked this video :)

@ashlyn8994 2 жыл бұрын

i agree

@ashlyn8994 2 жыл бұрын

look at this idiot replying to themselves

@FrenchinPlainSight 2 жыл бұрын

😂. You could have written in French and had a dialogue/monologue. At least then you'd have practised :) #everylittlehelps

@artistinbeziers7916 2 жыл бұрын

Another great talk. Thank you. As I live in Béziers, I have the added fun of the challenge of the Béziers accent!

@FrenchinPlainSight 2 жыл бұрын

Oui. Ça s'appelle l'accent du midi, en fait. It's the same across the south, I believe :)

@artistinbeziers7916 2 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight Oui, t'as raison, bien sûr, mais l'accent "bitterois" est un accent dans l'accent - célèbre pour cela dans l'Hérault!

@FrenchinPlainSight 2 жыл бұрын

@@artistinbeziers7916 je le savais pas!

@alberttomashelbksrensen4276 Жыл бұрын

Isn't it "j'espère que ce soit clair pour vous"? In Spanish 'esperar' would certainly require the subjunctive; doesn't 'espérer' do the same?

@FrenchinPlainSight Жыл бұрын

Well, they are similar languages but still separate :). Actually, no. Espérer que is sort of an exception to the rule of "expressing emotions introduces the subunctive" which is present in French. In the affirmative, we use the indicative after que: J'espère que + indicative. In the negative, we use the subjunctive: Je n'espère pas que + subjunctive. In the 1st person plural of the imperative voice, we use the subjunctive too: Espérons que + subjunctive.

@alberttomashelbksrensen4276 Жыл бұрын

Oh! Thanks for the great help! ^^

@gerigeans 2 жыл бұрын

Hello - so the word La in the end of the sentence Parler “La” what does that signify? Or means? I often hear French speakers using that La … thank you

@FrenchinPlainSight 2 жыл бұрын

I think you're referring to when they say "Là". Literally it means "there" but they use it to mean "now" like. "Oui oui, je lui parle là". They also use it as a filler word which is like a tic (French word maybe?) which doesn't add anything to the content of the sentence.

@gerigeans 2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense Merci

@andrewwilliams9580 3 жыл бұрын

I got as far as "qui veut du te?" and "oui j'en veux" and it made sense to me. I reckon letter Y is to replace propositions? J'y vais could mean I go there. I hope I'm right.

@Furienna Жыл бұрын

"Y" is often used to replace phrases which consist of the preposition "à" + a verb.

@ivor75 2 жыл бұрын

is it correct to say "j'ai veux de ça'' if we don't master the use of ''en''?

@depassage5202 2 жыл бұрын

Ce serait "Je veux de ça." Ça peut être utilisé si vous désignez quelque chose dont vous ne connaissez pas le nom. Par exemple un jeune enfant à table qui pointe du doigt un aliment dont il ne connaît pas le nom. Je veux de ça = I want some of this. J'en veux = I want some.

@hayafozi3104 2 жыл бұрын

I dont know where to focos your beautiful eyes 😍or french 😅😅😅

@FrenchinPlainSight 2 жыл бұрын

Watch it twice :p

@timotheelegrincheux2204 2 жыл бұрын

We need to be careful and not confuse EN the preposition (en France, en train de) and EN the pronoun.

@markhathaway9456 3 жыл бұрын

Deux de vous ? Je refuse de comprendre. C'est fou! Comme deux chips passent dans la nuit. .... Merci.

@FrenchinPlainSight 3 жыл бұрын

Haha

@nem4youb 9 ай бұрын

J'en ai marre. I've had it up to here? Ou est le "de"? S'est cache ou?

@FrenchinPlainSight 9 ай бұрын

Techiquement, tu peux dire "j'ai marre de ça" et "de ça" se transforme en "en". Mais souvent on entend, "J'en ai marre de ça" aussi. L'expresson "J'en ai marre" est devenu fixe.

@nem4youb 9 ай бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight merci!

@JL-qt1nb 4 ай бұрын

When you say "J'en ai marre", people around you are supposed to know what you're talking about so you don't need to explain saying "J'en ai marre de faire la vaisselle" "I am sick of washing dishes ". You can explain to inform people or insisting on what bothers you.