Use of pronoun en in this phrase
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isaac t.Kwiziq community member
Use of pronoun en in this phrase
“Bien que mon compte bancaire en ait pris un coup”, what is the function of ‘en’ in this phrase? What is it replacing?
This question relates to:French dictation exercise "At the Galeries Lafayette in Paris"
Asked 6 months ago
Isaac,
this is a fixed expression ‘ en prendre un coup ‘ and such expressions are often/usually best just accepted as a whole. They don’t always support efforts at deconstruction word by word, or for grammatical purity !
‘en’ is not infrequently one of the words that is found in expressions without an obvious explicable purpose
https://www.wordreference.com/fren/en%20prendre%20un%20coup
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/expressions/adverbial-en-expressions/
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