S'il y en a encore, tu devrais en reprendre.
If there is still some of it, you should have some more.
Breakdown of S'il y en a encore, tu devrais en reprendre.
tu
you (informal singular)
il y a
there is / there are
devoir
to have to / must
si
if
encore
still, again
en
of it / of them (quantity)
reprendre
to have more / to take again
Questions & Answers about S'il y en a encore, tu devrais en reprendre.
Why is the order y en in s'il y en a?
Why is the second en placed before reprendre and not before devrais?
When a sentence has a conjugated verb followed by an infinitive (like devrais reprendre), the object pronoun almost always goes right before the infinitive it belongs to. Since you are "having some" (en reprendre), the en sits directly in front of reprendre.
What tense is devrais and why is it used here instead of the present tense?
Devrais is the conditional form of devoir (to have to / must). While the present tense tu dois means "you have to" or "you must", the conditional tu devrais softens the meaning to "you should". It is the standard way to give advice or a recommendation in French.
Why does si change to s' in s'il?
How do we know encore means "still" here and not "again"?
Encore can mean "still", "yet", or "again", but context usually makes it clear. With expressions of existence like il y a, il y en a encore naturally means "there is still some". To express the idea of doing an action "again", French often uses verbs with the prefix re-, which we see right at the end of this sentence with reprendre (to have some more / to take again).
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