French Word of the Day

there

Voulez-vous aller à Paris? Oui, je veux y aller.
Do you want to go to Paris? Yes, I want to go there.

MORE ABOUT Y
The pronoun y generally means there. It’s typically used to replace information in a sentence that follows prepositions including à, dans, en, sous and sur. Consider these examples:

• La lampe est dans l’armoire. Elle y est.
  The lamp is in the cabinet. It’s there.
• Le chien est couché sous la table. Il y est.
  The dog is lying under the table. He’s there.

TODAY
Today’s example was originally published as part of a weeklong look at the adverbial pronouns y and en.