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Remember that � le contracts to au and � les contracts to aux.

Je vais au stade. - I'm going to the stadium.

Instead of a preposition and place, you can use the pronoun y, meaning there. Y comes before the verb.

Remember that aller must be used with a place ( there or a name) when indicating that you are going somewhere, even if a place wouldn't normally be given in English.

J'y vais. - I'm going there.

Tu y vas. - You're going there.

Nous y allons. - We're going there.

The negative form of aller with the y pronoun has both the verb and pronoun enclosed between ne and pas.

Il n'y va pas. - He's not going there.

Futur Proche

The structure aller + infinitive is used to say that something is going to happen in the near future.

Il va pleuvoir demain. - It's going to rain tomorrow.

Il va faire froid. - It's going to be cold.

Remember that the negative goes around the conjugated verb.

Il ne va pas pleuvoir demain. - It's not going to rain tomorrow.

Idioms

Allons-y - ahlonzee - Let's go! (imp�ratif)

�a va? - How are you? (lit: It goes?)

On y va! - Let's get going!

On y va? - Should we go?

Liaison

Usually, whenever a vowel sound comes after ...ons or ...ez, the usually unpronounced s and z change to a sharp z sound and link to the next syllable. (This process is called liaison.) However, since allons and allez begins with vowels, nous allons is pronounced nyoozahloh and vous allez is pronounced voozahlay. In order to have a pleasing and clean sound, two liaisons should not go consecutively. There is therefore no liaison in allons � when it comes right after nous and allez � when it comes after vous.

In the phrase Vous allez � l'�cole? , vous allez � is pronounced vouzahlay ah.

In the phrase vous et Marie allez � l'�cole?", allez � is pronounced ahlayzah .