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## UNIT SEVENTEEN The pronouns ne  and ci 

## The pronoun ne 

1 The pronoun ne  is used to refer to a part of a whole, corresponding to ‘of it/- them’, as in ‘some of it/them’, ‘two of them’, etc. It is normally used together with quantities, whether expressed in numbers or in any other way (kilos, litres, metres, slices, cups, ‘too much/little’, ‘enough’, etc.); it is always placed before the verb: 

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Note, however, that ne  is not used in cases where English would say ‘all of it’, ‘all of them’, etc. Compare the following examples: 

