Questions & Answers about Il mange une part et il en veut une autre.
Why is en used in the second half of the sentence?
In French, when you specify a quantity of a noun you just mentioned, you use the pronoun en to replace the noun. In English, we simply say "he wants another," but French requires you to say "he wants another of it" (il en veut une autre). Why does en go before the verb veut?
Adverbial pronouns like en must be placed immediately before the conjugated verb they are connected to. That is why it is il en veut instead of il veut en. Does une part always mean a "slice"?
Une part specifically refers to a "share" or "portion" of something that is divided among people, like a pizza or a pie. If you meant a broken piece of something non-food related, you would usually use un morceau. Why do we use une autre instead of just autre?
Autre (other) usually needs an article in front of it. Because the hidden word it refers to (part) is a feminine noun, we use the feminine article une. Together, une autre literally means "an other" or "another one". Learn Il mange une part et il en veut une autre and more in French
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