This is not a question about the subjunctive mood, but the sentence was an exercise of it, so I ask my question here.
What is the role of "en" in the following sentence: "Bien que je veuille me reposer, je n'EN ai pas le temps !" Does it mean "I don't have the time for it."? Could you also just write "Bien que je veuille me reposer, je n'ai pas le temps !" without the "en"?
To expand a bit on Jim's answer:
Je n'ai pas le temps de me reposer. -- I don't have the time to rest.
Je n'en ai pas le temps. -- I don't have the time for it. As you can see, en replaces de me reposer.
En can replace de + [phrase] (French Adverbial Pronouns)
Hi M,
I agree with your proposal "I don't have the time FOR it"
I guess that we could write "Je n'ai pas le temps" but that would not be specific to the need/desire to rest.
Bonne journée
Jim
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