Learn French: Vous allez à la cafétéria pour y réviser ? - Are you going to the cafeteria to study there?

Vous allez à la cafétéria pour y réviser ?

Are you going to the cafeteria to study there?

Breakdown of Vous allez à la cafétéria pour y réviser ?

at / to / in (general locations) / about (what one thinks about / reacts to)

aller

to go

Questions & Answers about Vous allez à la cafétéria pour y réviser ?

Why does y go right before réviser?

The pronoun y replaces a place (here, à la cafétéria) and means "there". In French, pronouns go immediately before the verb they are connected to. Since you are going to study there, y goes right before the infinitive verb réviser.

Since we already said à la cafétéria, isn't the y redundant?

You could leave it out and just say pour réviser ("to study"). However, adding y to mean "to study there" is very common and natural in French to strongly connect the action back to the place you just mentioned.

Why is the verb réviser in the infinitive form here instead of conjugated like allez?

When the preposition pour is used to mean "in order to", it is always followed by an infinitive verb (the unconjugated dictionary form). You can think of pour y réviser as "in order to study there".

I thought "to study" was étudier. Why use réviser?

While étudier means to study a subject in general, réviser specifically means to review material you've already learned, usually to prepare for a test or exam. French students use réviser all the time!