Verb drill
Je me lève, nous nous levons: French reflexive present practice
Match subject and reflexive pronoun, keep the accent in lève and practise elision, negatives and infinitives in twelve morning-routine answers.
- A2
- 12 answers
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- Accents count
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In short
Use a subject, its matching reflexive pronoun and a conjugated verb: je me lève, nous nous levons. The pronouns are me, te, se, nous, vous, se. With se lever, keep the grave accent in lève, lèves and lèvent, but use levons and levez.
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| Subject | se lever — get up | s’habiller — get dressed |
|---|---|---|
| je | me lève | m’habille |
| tu | te lèves | t’habilles |
| il / elle / on | se lève | s’habille |
| nous | nous levons | nous habillons |
| vous | vous levez | vous habillez |
| ils / elles | se lèvent | s’habillent |
The first nous in nous nous levons is the subject; the second is the reflexive pronoun. With a named person, use se: Nora se prépare. Before a vowel or mute h, shorten me, te and se: je m’habille, tu t’habilles, elle s’habille.
Objects in a morning routine
Find:
Je me lave les mains. Elle se brosse les dents.
I wash my hands. She brushes her teeth.
The reflexive pronoun identifies whose body part it is. French uses les mains and les dents here.
Je ne me lève pas tôt.I do not get up early.
Focus: the negative around pronoun + verb
Elle ne s’habille pas ici.
She does not get dressed here.
Je veux me reposer.I want to rest.
Focus: the pronoun immediately before its infinitive
Nous allons nous coucher.
We are going to bed.
How do you conjugate reflexive verbs in the present?
Write the reflexive pronoun and verb together in each gap. Round one asks for the present of se lever. Round two mixes routine actions, elision and an infinitive. Accents count: lève and lèves keep è. In the last row, the cue specifies an infinitive after veux.
1 · Se lever: all six persons
- je
- tu
- il / elle / on
- nous
- vous
- ils / elles
2 · A complete morning routine
- Je avant le petit déjeuner. (s’habiller)
- Nora pour le cours. (se préparer)
- Nous les mains. (se laver)
- Tu ne pas tard. (se coucher)
- Vous à sept heures ? (se réveiller)
- Je veux après le travail. (se reposer, infinitive)