Question about this sentence read in St. Exupery.
'Dans ce pays elles n'en finissent pas de rendre leur or.'
I encounter this usage often in reading but I don't know what rule requires the 'en'. It seems to me that the sentence would make sense without it.

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Question about this sentence read in St. Exupery.
'Dans ce pays elles n'en finissent pas de rendre leur or.'
I encounter this usage often in reading but I don't know what rule requires the 'en'.  It seems to me that the sentence would make sense without it.

Answer

I have often wondered about the same thing, but  there is a grammatical rule about its usage. Here is the site about using 'en'
http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/grammar/en_pron.shtml

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