This is the case here for the city of Brussels

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The fact that there is a determiner leads us or pushes us to use "in". And after "in", we have a determined noun, we really know the place in particular.

unlike the city. "In the city" is more general than "in the city of Brussels". We use "in" without an article. I live "in" the city. And "in" is followed by a general noun. As I said before, it is not precise. We say "in the city", it can be any city. So there you have it, we have seen five cases of use of the preposition "in".

I really invite you to maybe review these different parts. We have classified the chapters for you under this video and it is really important that you take the time to watch several times, to analyze the examples to be sure that you have understood everything. Of course, there are many other uses of "en", there are even fixed lebanon whatsapp number data expressions. For example, "prendre en main", "prendre en compte", "en vérité".

All of these are fixed expressions that we haven't talked about today. But don't stress, I keep repeating it, to really progress, you have to listen to a lot of French and all of this will become natural for you. By dint of hearing authentic French, you will know, you will feel which preposition to use.

Now I'm going to give you a little exercise to see if you've understood everything. I'm going to give you some sentences with gaps and you're going to have to choose the correct preposition. We're going to show you all of this on the screen.

First question. I went around the world _ _ _ _ _ car. Should we put "in" or should we put "to"? We'll give you five seconds. Yes, that's it. We say I went around the world "in" a car since it's a means of transport that you get into.

I lived _ _ _ _ _ India for three years. Should we use the preposition "en" or "à" with an "l'" after it? We'll give you five seconds. Yes, that's it. We do say I lived "en" India for three years since India is a country name that begins with a vowel, so we use "en".

Third, I'll come back _ _ _ _ _ two minutes. Should we put "en" or "dans"? We'll let you think about it.

Yes, that's it, I'm coming back "in" two minutes because we're talking about a duration of two minutes, so "in" also expresses this duration, but here, it's a duration of two minutes from now, whereas "in" gives a duration of two minutes that could start at any time. So here, it's "in".

And finally, _ _ _ _ _ my city, there are many parks. Should we put "en" or "dans"? Yes, that's it, it's "dans" my city, there are many parks. We know that after "en", there is no determiner, but always "en" plus the noun. So here, the fact that we have "ma ville", it requires the use of "dans". In particular here, another reason is that "ma ville" is something specific, so it calls for the preposition "dans", whereas the preposition "en" is something more general.

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