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May 26, 2012 - 02:46 PM
it can't be gender because I just did an exercise in the workouts with a feminine noun and it just used en... hm...
May 27, 2012 - 09:16 AM
Not sure your first example is correct. My understanding is en alone means "some" while when a specific number is mentioned the number is added as well: "We have no apples I am going to buy some = Nous n'avons pas des pommes, je vais en acheter." But if it had ended with "I am going to buy one." it would be "je vais en acheter une." or "je vais en acheter trois." or maybe even "je vais en acheter beaucoup."
May 27, 2012 - 02:08 PM
I think I gave a wrong example. Thank you
May 29, 2012 - 07:34 AM
The pronoun "en" on its own is used a lot to replaced a structure with "de", for example: Je veux de l'eau / J'EN veux, in this case it means "some": I want some.
But you have to use "en...un"/"en...une" when you replace a structure with "un/une", according to the gender of what you refer to, for example:
Je veux un stylo / J'EN veux UN
Il achète une voiture / Il EN achète UNE
Hope this helps!
But you have to use "en...un"/"en...une" when you replace a structure with "un/une", according to the gender of what you refer to, for example:
Je veux un stylo / J'EN veux UN
Il achète une voiture / Il EN achète UNE
Hope this helps!