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substitutions...
- Vous lisez le journal dans le metro?
- Non, je n'y le lis pas
Is that a valid answer? I substituted 'le journal' with 'le' and 'dans le metro' with 'y'...
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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on
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Almost!
Clitics (that's the technical name for these little words like "le", "y") are odd in that when two or more occur together, speakers genearlly put them in a particular order.
It turns out that y genearlly comes after other clitics (except en). So you'd actually end up with:
Je ne l'y lis pas.
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