Just when I thought I knew everything about the scary ''en,'' I get confused. Someone please help.
''Toutes les images pas trop esthétiques
Autobiographiques
Fais-EN un film.''
Why can't you say, ''fais-le'' ?
From a song: Alice et Moi - filme moi
Why is french ''en'' used here?
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Re: Why is french ''en'' used here?
queenkatherine__ wrote:Fais-EN un film.''
Make a movie out of them.
The pronoun "en" essentially acts as a replacement for "de ça" (or any other prepositional complement starting with the preposition "de").
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Re: Why is french ''en'' used here?
Fais un film de cela.
Fais-en un film.
En is here a pronoun replacing de X.
Fais-en un film.
En is here a pronoun replacing de X.
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Re: Why is french ''en'' used here?
As ilmari says above it is a pronoun referring to what has already been mentioned: toutes les images... So en here = of it/them.
Fais-en un film = make a film from them/make from them a film.
Fais-en un film = make a film from them/make from them a film.
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