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The prepositions \u2018dans\u2019 and \u2018en\u2019 both mean \u2018in\u2019. When should you use one or the other? <\/strong><\/p>\n Prepositions in French can be quite a challenge, especially when Dutch has one word for which the French use two. Fortunately, there are rules for when to use \u2018dans\u2019 and when to use \u2018en\u2019. <\/p>\n Dans<\/strong> Masculine provinces and states take the word \u2018dans\u2019:<\/p>\n The same applies to regions, certain islands, and groups of islands in the plural:<\/p>\n EN<\/strong> Attention<\/strong> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_sidebar area=”sidebar-1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The prepositions \u2018dans\u2019 and \u2018en\u2019 both mean \u2018in\u2019. When should you use one or the other? Prepositions in French can be quite a challenge, especially when Dutch has one word for which the French use two. Fortunately, there are rules for when to use \u2018dans\u2019 and when to use \u2018en\u2019. Dans\u2018Dans\u2019 is used for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\u2018Dans\u2019 is used for a place, a moment in the future, for an indoor location, and for something that happened within a decade:<\/p>\n\n
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\u2018En\u2019 is used for a season, a duration of time, or material. Feminine countries or countries starting with a vowel also take \u2018en\u2019. <\/p>\n\n
\u2018En\u2019 is also used with the gerund. This is used when two events occur simultaneously. You can read more about this in this article<\/a>.
Please note: \u2018en\u2019 is also used when indicating a quantity. Want to know exactly how that works? Then read this article.<\/a> <\/p>\n