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Le Passé Composé avec les verbes réfléchis (Passé composé with Reflexive Verbs) © 2012 Middlebury Interactive Languages. All rights reserved. This material is intended for the exclusive use of registered users only. No portion of these materials may be reproduced or redistributed in any form without the express permission of Middlebury Interactive Languages. As you already know, reflexive verbs are verbs used to describe actions that people are doing to themselves. In the passé compose, reflexive verbs are conjugated with the verb être as the auxiliary verb, and the past participle typically agrees in gender and number with the subject: Je me suis levé. Tu t’es levé. Elle s’est levée. Elles se sont levées. To negate sentences with reflexive verbs in the passé composé, place the ne before the reflexive pronoun and the pas after the auxiliary verb: Nous ne nous sommes pas levés. Notice that these sentences follow the same pattern you learned with direct and indirect object pronouns: subject + (reflexive) pronoun + auxiliary verb (present tense of être) + past participle (with agreement) The past participle will not agree with the subject if there is also a direct object in the sentence. You will often see a reflexive verb with a direct object pronoun when you’re talking about parts of the body: Elle se lave. Elle s’est lavée. Compare the example above to the sentence with an added direct object below. Elle se lave les mains. Elle s’est lavé les mains. (no agreement; mains is a direct object) Now that you know how to use reflexive verbs, work on putting them in the passé composé so that you’re comfortable using them regardless of which tense you’re in.

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Le Passé Composé avec les verbes réfléchis

(Passé composé with Reflexive Verbs)

© 2012 Middlebury Interactive Languages. All rights reserved. This material is intended for the exclusive use of registered users only. No portion of these materials may be reproduced or redistributed in any form without the express permission of Middlebury Interactive Languages.

As you already know, reflexive verbs are verbs used to describe actions that people are doing to themselves. In the passé compose, reflexive verbs are conjugated with the verb être as the auxiliary verb, and the past participle typically agrees in gender and number with the subject:

Je me suis levé. Tu t’es levé. Elle s’est levée. Elles se sont levées.

To negate sentences with reflexive verbs in the passé composé, place the ne before the reflexive pronoun and the pas after the auxiliary verb:

Nous ne nous sommes pas levés.

Notice that these sentences follow the same pattern you learned with direct and indirect object pronouns:

subject + (reflexive) pronoun + auxiliary verb (present tense of être) + past participle (with agreement)

The past participle will not agree with the subject if there is also a direct object in the sentence. You will often see a reflexive verb with a direct object pronoun when you’re talking about parts of the body:

Elle se lave. à Elle s’est lavée. Compare the example above to the sentence with an added direct object below.

Elle se lave les mains. à Elle s’est lavé les mains. (no agreement; mains is a direct object)

Now that you know how to use reflexive verbs, work on putting them in the passé composé so that you’re comfortable using them regardless of which tense you’re in.