The secrets of the preposition “en”

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Hi! I'm going to town, I'm going on a trip, I shot this video in 30 minutes, he lives in France, she lives in Paris. With all the prepositions that exist in French, it's not always easy to find your way around. In today's video, we're going to study the preposition "en" together and we're going to see all its uses with examples.

Hello and thanks for joining me for this new video. So, what is a preposition in French? It is a word that introduces another word. Prepositions make links between words. Prepositions are invariable words, they do not agree and their spelling never changes. On this channel, we have already offered videos on the preposition "dans", on the preposition "à" and even on the preposition "en" but today, we wanted to go a little further.

We are going to review the main uses of the preposition "en" and we are going to discuss some cases that I did not cover in my previous video. We will also try to compare the preposition "en" with other prepositions so that you do not make a mistake or, in any case, so that you do not mix them up. For example, you saw earlier that we say elle vit "en" France, but we also say elle vit "à" Paris. So here, we could confuse the prepositions "en" and "à" and today we are going to see how to no longer make a mistake.

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So, let's get back to our preposition "en". A first observation that we can make is that unlike other prepositions like "à", "dans", "chez", etc., the preposition "en" is followed directly by the noun, there is no article between the two. For example, we say je vais "en ville". With other prepositions, we often have an article je suis "chez le" médecin.



We are going to see five uses of the preposition “en”.

The first is to introduce a complement of time. It is used before months, before years or before seasons. "In" January, it is still cold in Europe. I was born "in" 1982. I ski "in" winter. There is an exception at the level of the seasons, we say "in summer", we say "in autumn", we say "in winter", but we do not say "in spring", we say "in spring". This is an exception in the French language. "In" can also be used to express a duration, the duration that we need to do something. For example, I learned to ski "in" three days, or I recorded this video "in" thirty minutes.