b) Genitive pronoun: en (see p. 318, No. I, b

(5) en may replace pronominally any nouns, or pronouns that are in the Genitive case, whether that Genitive case is a real Genitive, or a Partitive, e.g.:

(a) le train arrive de Fort William (GEN.) (p. 97, line 13): the train

arrives from Fort William, le train en arrive (GEN.) : the train arrives from there.

(b) le poète parle des deux tours (GEN.) (p. 115, line 7): the poet

speaks of the two towers.

le poète en parle (GEN.) : the poet speaks of them.

(c) "voilà des couvents et des écoles" (INDEF. PLUR. or PART.):

here are some (adj.) convents and schools. "en voilà" (p. 115, line 11); here are some (pron.).

(d) "voici du beurre, Marianne, prenez-en" (PARTIT.) (p. 133,

line 19): here is some butter, M., take some.

(6) en must be used in connection with numerals that are taking the place of nouns, e.g. :

See the answer to question 204, p. 104; en in the second sentence, used before neuf, is replacing parlements provinciaux.

(7) Similarly to No. 6 above, en is required in connection with adverbs of quantity (see p. 334, No. 137, c).