This is about 'on y va'

Park J.A0Kwiziq community member

I have a lot of trouble with french because i directly translate the English. So i wanted to know if "on y va" can also be used for something like, "let's do it" or "let's get started". Or is it just for "let's go somewhere" like a place?

This question relates to:French lesson "On can mean either we/one/people (French Subject Pronouns)"

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Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

The adverbial pronoun 'y' can be used to replace 'place' and other previously mentioned 'à + something' as per this lesson Y can replace à + [thing/object/location] (French Adverbial Pronouns) However the verb needs to change - you can not use [aller] when you mean [commencer], [faire], [terminer] etc etc,

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Park J. asked:

This is about 'on y va'

I have a lot of trouble with french because i directly translate the English. So i wanted to know if "on y va" can also be used for something like, "let's do it" or "let's get started". Or is it just for "let's go somewhere" like a place?

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