Er* was vandaag soep. Zo lekker met dit koude weer. We hebben ervan** genoten. (There was soup today. So good with this cold weather. We enjoyed it.) The position of "er" in a sentence is not always intuitive. * "Er" is used as a preliminary subject. In that case you start the sentence with "er". * * "Ervan" is used to refer (to the soup). In that case you put it directly after the predicate "hebben".
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