How to say "IN" in French: DANS vs EN

[@mep6302]

In this case, Spanish is easier than English and French English: in, on, at French: en, dans, à, chez Spanish: en I wanna die xD

[@SuperGeekalicious]

Mau Pr chez means home? Sooo

[@mep6302]

Grace Njoku Je suis chez Mario = I'm in Mario's house. Estoy en la casa de Mario. It doesn't mean home. It means 's house. Or in Spanish en casa de. EN casa de. That's why I included it

[@Ste197]

Sign language is better 🖕

[@mep6302]

dwr1982 Maybe. I don't speak it xD

[@gabrielfigueiredo4372]

same in Portuguese; all of them translate to "em"

[@m.ibrahimhussein4043]

actually, the way you teach French is very outstanding and it attracts anyone interested in learning French. Thank you very much for your effort.

[@TheAsdasd6699]

Truly amazing videos

[@busrademirci4556]

exactement

[@suninmoon4601]

Sounds like "dans" translates better as "I will leave for the office within 20 minutes." or "I am inside the house.", "The cat is inside the box." --Beginner French

[@ismaildynasty694]

c'était impossible sans toi d'apprendre le français.... thnx for teaching me

[@adjalkhaled343]

merci beaucoup pour ces vidéos i learn both english and french at the same time ,) thanks a lot

[@p.vgamer3002]

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[@coolacademicgirl]

You are the best French teacher and you make everything so comprehensive and clear. Merci beaucoup Alexa!

[@gotnoname7051]

At 5:46 You've got a mistake The chat est ...=>le or la XD but i don't anything else just laughing You've helped me alot ❤❤👏

[@dilomine1352]

Its le chat

[@mahboubehtavakol9154]

you're the best Alexa. Thanks for the videos. I would be so grateful if you could introduce some simple French songs or movies for more practice with authentic materials.

[@annettemcnabb3033]

Thank you so much i asked my french teacher how could we tell the difference -she didn't have a way to explain it-this was excellent!!!

[@hanihaney954]

it's difficult i can't understand 😥

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

Start by the very first lesson :)

[@bazokabf]

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[@Raphael40f]

This work is so helpful. I think that if people keep recording language lessons like this, setting an access to it available for beginners across the globe,it'll ever bring miraclous results, you know.. At least that's what i believe. She's also a good english accent, and speaks slowly as all decent teachers should do, so that people can learn in a easier way. It's even better when we have to study both two languages spoken here. Then, thanks.

[@abbaspushtoon4224]

Bonjour madam , as you said that en can be use living in country or region like , j'habite en France, but if we saying that I am living in Japan, j'habite au Japon, or en japon , here need little explanation, Second question, you said that en is also use for living in specific location, j'habite en banlieue, and you also gave the example for Dans, j'habite Dans une banlieue tranquille , both are the same why??????

[@abbaspushtoon4224]

En can be use living in countries which are feminine in France or start with h or vowel if am not wrong

[@kdowning73]

Bonjour Alexa! Many thanks for this video, it has helped clear up a lot of my confusion about ‘en’ and ‘dans’. I have a question though. In a previous video (DEPUIS or PENDANT? How to say SINCE and FOR in French), you used the sentence “Hélène habite à Paris depuis 2005.” I’m wondering, would it be correct to say “Hélène habite EN Paris depuis 2005.”? If not, could you please explain why “à” is required in that sentence? Merci beaucoup!

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

You only use à when referring to a town and either EN (fem) or AU (masc) or AUX (plural) for a country : j'habite à Paris en France :)

[@kdowning73]

Merci, Alexa! Vous êtes la meilleure!! :D

[@ishaanprakash2446]

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[@reubenamoako5996]

@@learnfrenchwithalexa do we say je veux la paix or je veux de la paix and what is the difference

[@VanNguyen-bs5kw]

I 've learned Dans and En for a longtime. Now. it makes me clearly. Merci beaucoup, Alexa.

[@fatihzoroglu4006]

"Je vais au bureau dans 20 minutes." In this example, why there is no article before bureau?

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

Bonjour 'au' is technically 'à le' : the article is within this preposition 'au' as we can not say 'à le'. :)

[@ghetoknight7801]

@@learnfrenchwithalexa is that why "a l'école" works, "a le école" because you can't contract au to the e in école?

[@harryindiano]

This was not helpful I blame french

[@bethanyasay1591]

Je lis en le francaise, merci au ma proffeseur. As you see, I'm still rough around the edges with french, so thanks for your tidbit. I want to watch french videos that are clean and all french. Know any?

[@mimimimo2918]

Example is wrong : not the chat ---> le chat

[@blackbeardpapa9547]

Ha ha THE CHAT est dans la boite! You'er like me...FRANGLISH.... C'est un my bad... haha

[@supratiksen1]

Excellent! In the examples, 'The chat...' should be 'Le chat...' I find your posts interesting and intellectually stimulating. I share your KZbin with my learners. More power to you, Alexa! Bonne journée!

[@subratochakravorty8289]

HI Alexa, in the example "le chat est dans la boite" you mistakenly used 'the' instead of 'le' in the french sentence. Au revoir.

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

Yes thank you, we know here at LFWA but by the time the video was posted it was too late. Unfortunately you can not remove a video on KZbin and keep the numbers of views.

[@subratochakravorty4657]

Learn French With Alexa That's completely fine. Je suis juste content que tu aies répondu. Merci beaucoup.

[@paulringel9094]

Learn French With Alexa can not is written “cannot.” One word.

[@helderlourenco7146]

Great lesson, prepositions are always difficult to master. Thank you!

[@chloevitagliano9565]

When you are a native romance language speaker so your native language already has two perfect counterparts for both dans and en thus you don't have to waste time

[@dreamlandcompany]

J’habite à Paris J’habite en France So it’s a city use à and en if it’s a country?

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

YES!!!! And AU for a country which has masculine gender :)

[@Mpe898]

Bonjour! I really like your videos. Just curious, do I detect like a different accent when you talk in English? Like a German accent or something else? Thanks! I love accents and now I'm starting to really love learning languages especially French!! :)

[@jimmoster6345]

This is the best French learning channel. Thank you for your thoroughness and clarity, Alexa!

[@getthefactsxgallaxy6043]

Alexa for sure i had tried to learn french before but it didn't work out and this time with your great help am going to make it. thank you so much for your devotion

[@ogeidnomar4601]

I love the complexity that the French language has. In my opinion it is one of the more innovative languages from the Romance family. From the ne.. pas..., to the specific nuances of dans/en or the partitive articles, liaisons, elisions. The unique Pronouns Y and En that have no immediate parallels in other Romance languages to my knowledge.

[@Shelbygoff]

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[@agupatiencen.9284]

God bless you Ma. You are really helping us out.

[@olgamono851]

Is it possible to say: je voyage par train ?

[@MartimCorreia10]

Finally someone clarifies me this I've asked both my parents that speak perfect French but none of them could explain me this. Thank you!!!

[@renoleevans]

Euh... J'apprends toujours le francais mais quand je vois le mot "dans", je pense... "In/within/during/inside comme les choix". Une leçon trop cool! Merci!

[@АртемМаркин-й5э]

Good evening. 0:45 Why do you always spell FRENCH words or articles with ENGLISH letters?

[@Hola-fz7jq]

I have noted that a little mistake was made in the last sentence where instead of the French article for the cat the English "The" was written!!! Just to note! 😊👍👍👌🇫🇷 🇬🇧 ❤🙏 Thank you....

[@baritonebynight]

I have to wonder....if Alexa is secretly former Olympic figure skating champion Katarina Witt who has taken a second career as a French language specialist.. They look...and even sound (vocal timbre vs accent)...very much the same. If Alexa starts doing triple toe loops during her lessons...I guess we will know the answer.

[@moisesrocha9250]

Salut! I started to learn French a few days ago. It is harder than English, I am Brazilian and French sounds a little bit of Portuguese. For example, dans = dentro. Merci.

[@davidquinn4387]

The way you explain is incredibly good , Everything is way easier to learn when you explain it , thank you for taking your time to do such a great videos Alexa!!

[@sw_dev_chirag]

Thank you very much. Can you kindly help me with which one of this is correct "En quelques pays asiatiques," or "Dans quelques pays asiatiques," ?

[@Sancriswolffox]

How to say the N word in french...I mean IN word..

[@shilpakumari4027]

In the case of Dan's....you took one eg " je vais au dans 20 minutes"...the translation will be " I go to the office in 20 minutes". For future sentence " irai " should be used mam

[@ogbrmusic]

I also read that en is only applicable as far as locations go for countries or continents but not individual cities ??? For instance J'habite en Europe would be fine but for Paris it's not. I know it's off topic but maybe someone could help explain the sentence I got while studying the sentence was Un garçon mange une orange. My question is un is the masculine and une is feminine but somehow the Orange is feminine? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[@Hola-fz7jq]

The chat... 😊 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 😊

[@noahandersonfrench1782]

So “dans” means inside of? Like with time it translates to “inside of [20 minutes]”. And “en” means in as in “in” or “by”. It’s hard to explain:

[@SaddyRahman]

Merci, madame! Just one question, why is "je vais aur bureau dans 20 minutes" = I "will go" to the office in 20 minutes, shouldn't it be "j'irai"?

[@sandwich2761]

No because the fact that it indicates the future is already implied by the "in 20 minutes" so you don't need to conjugate the verb for the future. Also another thing is that other european languages tend not to use the future tense as much as we do in english as they can just use time to tell you its in the future. It might be a bit confusing but don't always try to equivocate everything to how english works,you just have to learn how they do it.

[@SaddyRahman]

@@sandwich2761 thanks. Which country are u from?

[@sandwich2761]

S R im from England actually, you?

[@esha-ps3hn]

Alexa you are always best and your videos are super informative! Keep going!

[@johngreene1670]

Alexa - love your energy, your clear, easy to understand and concise explanations. You have been of great help for me in learning correct French pronounciation of words.

[@marksn4020]

Bonsoir. To say it takes me 20 minutes to get to the office in French translates and as Il me faut vingt minutes pour arriver au bureau not to the concise way you have written. I am struggling to break yours down.

[@mayanlogos92]

Thsnk you a lot ... Im a little confused with "dans l'office" / "en office" ... the meanings seemed to me pretty similar

[@nouraali2189]

je parle un peu de français

[@chiarakawar1205]

ur the best French teacher

[@shilajitguharoy1246]

je vais au bureau en 20 minutes should mean "I am going to be in the office in 20minutes"...shouldn't it?

[@OfficielAmber]

If I am going to Paris in March which is the future and not present tense, but is still a geographical location would I use En or Dans?v

[@fadysaad7823]

J'habite en France, j'aime beaucoup les voyages en le train Parisien avec mon amie, jadis j'ai donné lui une bague en or, elle était très heureuse.

[@CraigDG]

Merci pour ce lecon Alexa. I have been struggling with the word IN for a long time, Now I know that EN is used when you want to say things like, in time, or in transit, or in love. Whereas DANS is used when you are talking about actually INSIDE something, like an airplane or a shop, or in your house. Have I got this right?

[@maya-kh3wt]

J'habite en hotel avec mon frere et ma soeur une salamandre dans la boite merci mo professeur

[@nathandrake5941]

This is the best channel for French learning, especially you used lots English spelling and pronounciation like I do, very adaptive for Eng speaker.

[@thanhwasabi657]

I cant express how thankful I am for being your "student", Alexa. You are so quite careful and absolutely teaching us from the bottom of your heart. I don't know why but I can feel it clearly, and again, from far far away I am sending to you my love. Thank Alexa.

[@nasirdaudzai7655]

Merci beaucoupe madame alaxa vous êtes intelligent professor...

[@jimpaterson9635]

A great lesson but still super confusing when using on spur of the moment, practice takes time and making many mistakes lol

[@mik4k6]

I know you're not a fan of saying French has a present participle (-ing form in English), Alexa, but everything I read in French uses "en -ant." For example, my dictionary has the following example listed under "en": _En _*_faisant_*_ un effort_ _By _*_making_*_ an effort_ Continuing your statement about _en_ sometimes translating to _by_ in English, it's commonly written to modify a participle.

[@annmarietornabene]

I think in this case the "en" is while...en courrant - while running..another use for en.

[@mik4k6]

That's why I mentioned it here. However, the "-ant" form of verbs is used all over the place without the "en" in front - from _Alice Détective_ (1970's translations of _Nancy Drew_ in French) to current monthly journals. It's listed at the top of every verb listing in _501 French Verbs,_ as well.

[@ChuvaEscura]

for some reason, DANS, it seems to me that it is translated as IN and also, WITHIN.. sorry if i m wrong

[@rajarshiganguly8141]

In the last sentence, how is "The" a French word? Shouldn't it be "Le" instead??

[@fitnesstenzin]

yes Alexa , it was really helpful :) MILLE MERCI ALEXA

[@mamtasaggar6599]

Alexa, you’re truly commendable 🥰❤️👍

[@torabika6599]

Biensure je vous attend vos videos suivant , choise des titles qui m' interesse , s' il vous plait,...Merci beaucoup de vos presentation...ciao

[@hasti7767]

Thank you so much i like this video

[@carlosrodriguez4684]

5:30 The chat or le chat? I'm confused. Honest mistake I guess.

[@useryooo]

Bonjour,Alexa,J'aime vos vidéos

[@nooks12]

Whoa! Does "Je vais..." mean "I will..."? Seems we need future conjugation? That might help with distinction of going to office and time?

[@Gary-pe4ce]

Je vais = I'm going This is often used when describing a future action set in motion immediatly To use the future tense J'irai means it will be set in motion but in the later future.

[@diggydowdiggydow]

ALEXA, MON PERE IL ME BATTRE CHAQUE JOUR, ET JE NE SAIS PAS QUOI FAIRE AIDEZ MOI, S'IL VOUS PLAIT! BISOUS

[@JoseGarcia-ib2rd]

Je ne comprende pas.. C'est confuse

[@requirementsrequired4384]

Jose Garcia aussi

[@nidhibharti7620]

last line says, the chat est dans la maison. shouldn't it be Le chat est dans la maison? such a cute overlapping❤..

[@arnabkundu465]

Bonjour, E.g.It takes me 20 minutes to go to the office. Can I say, "Ça me fait 20 minutes pour aller au bureau". Is this correct?

[@grouloulle]

ça me prend 20 minutes is better.

[@katherinemarsh784]

Oui. Comme ca. C'est useful. Bonne Nuite. Bisou. Bisou. Katherine MARSH

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

Parfait! j'espère que tu as passé une bonne nuit !

[@designereats3661]

What about “a”. All I know is that you put “a” before a city

[@hadimahdavi3319]

Alexa please correct 80 to 60 in the examples, soixant will be 60 not 80.

[@richdog490]

Time stamp 4:30, “je vais au bureau dans 20 minutes.” Why wouldn’t “je vais” be future tense “j’irai au bureau fans 20 minutes.” Instead?

[@Gary-pe4ce]

Aller is considered as a semi-auxiliary verb in which helps describe an action that will be in motion. 'je vais aller' = I'm going to go, intends that the planned action will immediatly take place. As compared to 'j'irai' = I will go, does not specifiy the time, it is planned but can happen later in the future rather than immediately.

[@oscarrichards9363]

Would I say Je vais faire du ski dans les montagnes or Je vais faire du ski aux montagnes?

[@shapalyy6259]

Hi, can you teach how to presentation (about self)..

[@KrishnaSingh-qx3ih]

Ma'am please! recap the lesson at the last of the video! Plz plz plz plz !

[@sylviangolet3726]

If you can substitute the word "inside" or "within" for "in'" then you can use the word "dans". Le chat est dans la boite. The cat is inside the box. Je vais au bureau dans cinq minutes. I am going to the office within five minutes. What would be the difference between "Je suis en classe" and "Je suis dans la classe"?

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

"Je suis dans la classe"? is the physical position. You are inside the classroom. But 'en classe' you are busy being in the process of learning. So more like 'I doing a class'.

[@mallory-gx3yg]

Merci !

[@pchaves8636]

Very useful videos thanks to Alexa

[@antoniodantas8544]

Cette classe c'est très magnifique

[@clincpb8903]

No need to add très.

[@adam_meek]

saying 'ay' for the indef articl = horrid. cannot listen to this channel

[@olivia_lugnaliv]

at the 5:30, I think that you accidently wrote "the chat" est dans la boite and the right one is "le chat"

[@geekbaritone]

made a mistake on that last sentence wrong the English article The instead of Le in French

[@spencergee6948]

Chere Alexa, please try not to say 'OK' as much.

[@arzootanwar7551]

merci beaucoup T_T vous etes ma maman française. bisou bisou

[@zahracheraghi5395]

You are great I've learned a lot from you .thanks a lot

[@venkatesanjayaraman4633]

You are my best french teacher. Thankyou.

[@ain7606]

my anglais brain doesn't like that explanation.

[@Yt234cartoons]

merci beaucoup alexa pour lecon et pour development des moi en francais

[@stephaniecummings9494]

THE chat est dans la boite..... bro... LE CHAT

[@antonfernando3630]

This should be contextually studied, not easy though

[@danbobd8003]

Bonjour madame! J'aime beaucoup votre leçons ! For those who speak Spanish this is actually easy, cause we have to think only our Spanish equivalent "dentro de" and then we'll see the difference between them. "Yo iré a trabajar DENTRO DE 20 minutos" "Los niños juegan DENTRO DEL jardín" and so on. Bisou bisou!

[@garyobermuller600]

Je suis dans l'hôpital avec mon ami.

[@sofiavonfurstenberg5702]

Noice.

[@thierryvidal1671]

Ou "je suis dans mon ami à l'hôpital "!

[@ghetoknight7801]

@@thierryvidal1671 Vous voulez dire Èje suis avec mon ami à l'opital" *

[@cuckooshrike9963]

merci beacoup

[@jolicoeur9754]

Merci bien

[@alisoncoulthursthenderson1301]

I just watched y and en difference now I am confused sorry