Word
Tu cherches le nouveau laboratoire ? J'y vais tout de suite.
Meaning
Are you looking for the new laboratory? I am going there right away.
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Breakdown of Tu cherches le nouveau laboratoire ? J'y vais tout de suite.
je
I
tu
you (informal singular)
chercher
to look for
nouveau
new
Questions & Answers about Tu cherches le nouveau laboratoire ? J'y vais tout de suite.
What does the 'y' do in "J'y vais"?
The adverbial pronoun y translates to "there." It replaces a place that was just mentioned or implied—in this case, au nouveau laboratoire. Notice that in French, pronoun objects like y are placed directly before the conjugated verb, which is why it is J'y vais (I there go) instead of placing it at the end of the sentence like in English.
Why isn't there a word for "for" after "cherches"?
Why is "nouveau" placed before the noun "laboratoire"?