I love the south of France. Nous y allons pour nos vacances. We go there for our holidays. Il y est. He is there.
Pride leaves the heart the day love enters it.
Sometimes, nonpersons are represented by lui . This is the case when the nonperson is personified in the least bit. Certain verbs tend to 'personify' nonpersons and generally call for the use of an indirect object pronoun as opposed to y . En En replaces expressions that begin with the preposition de . Like y it almost never is used when the object is a person.