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Je vais au campus aujourd'hui et j'y reste.

Je vais au campus aujourd'hui et j'y reste.
I am going to the campus today and I am staying there.
From Lesson 106:The pronoun of place (y)·French

Questions & Answers about Je vais au campus aujourd'hui et j'y reste.

Why is y used in this sentence and why is it in front of reste?
The pronoun y means "there" and replaces a place we already mentioned so we don't have to repeat it. Here, it replaces au campus. In French, pronouns like y go right before the verb, not after it like in English. That's why we say j'y reste (literally "I there stay").
Why do we write j'y instead of je y?
The word je drops its e and uses an apostrophe when the following word starts with a vowel or vowel sound. The letter y acts as a vowel in French, so je y reste must become j'y reste.
Why is it au campus instead of à le campus?
The word campus is masculine, so "the campus" is le campus. However, French never puts à (to/at) and le next to each other. They must combine into the single word au.
The translation says "I am going", so why doesn't the French use an "I am" verb form?
French doesn't have a separate "-ing" tense. The normal present tense in French covers both meanings. So, je vais can mean "I go" or "I am going", and je reste means "I stay" or "I am staying".

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