It depends. It’s not a matter of relative vs indirect, but the actual pronouns themselves. Whether reflexive or indirect, me, te, se, nous, and vous always go first. Lui and leur always go last. Edited: learn something new every day. ...
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Reflexive pronoun and future tense
Business EditorsA/ Vouloir et faire sont des verbes qui peuvent être utilisés de façon pronominale réfléchie. => elle se veut / elle se fait sont donc des tournures parfaitement légitimes avec donc un se pronom réfléchi, et ce, quel que soit ...
autofinancer vs s’autofinancer
Associations EditorsTout d’abord je pense que tu peux aller regarder sur cette page https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/autofinancer qui donne des exemples pour “autofinancer” et “s’autofinancer”. La différence se remarque facilement. “L’enseignement supérieur peut-il autofinancer?” est une forme incorrecte. Qu’est-ce que l’enseignement supérieur peut autofinancer? ...
Can we use the pronoun “se” with every verb?
Associations EditorsGenerally, if you want to say “I will do something at/to/on me=myself”, you can use “se faire quelque chose”, as in the examples you give (“I wash myself”, “I told myself”, etc.) Hence, yes, “je m’aime” is “I love¹ myself”. ...
“Je me suis envoyé un mail” or “je m’ai envoyé un mail”?
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The correct sentence is : Je me suis envoyé un mail When you use a reflexive pronoun (i.e. when the direct object is also the subject), then you must use the pronominal form, regardless of the semantics. It doesn’t matter ...
Knowing whether a pronominal verb is reflexive or reciprocal
Associations EditorsYou need to look at the meanings of the verbs. Elles se maquillent : reflexive because we assume each girl is making herself up. Elles se parlent : reciprocal because we assume there are two or more of them and ...
Reflexive form of “arrêter” for habits
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Both are very common, and sound correct. However, it looks like the correctness of the second one could be in question. CNRTL gives only this (non reflexive) example for arrêter de, and I did not see the reflexive s’arrêter de ...
Why are there two “vous” in “Comment vous vous appelez”?
Business EditorsIn “Comment tu t’appelles ?” there is also two “tu”. The “t’” is also a “tu”. “s’appeller” is a pronominal verb. So we need to put a pronoun. “Comment vous vous appelez ?” or “Comment vous appelez-vous ?” is like ...
Agreement of the past participle in presence of a reflexive pronoun
Associations EditorsThe Wiktionnary has interesting insights on that matter. My previous answer was wrong, fooled by the feminine, and a better one will come later. Si on n’utilise pas de pronom, cette phrase peut aussi être écrite : Les reines ont succédé ...
Why do we need to include the reflexive pronoun in past tense constructions like in Qu’est-ce qui s’est passé?
Business EditorsThese pronouns are not there to clarify the meaning but to set it. Removing them is possible but significantly affects it: Qu’est-ce qui s’est passé ? : What happened? (some event) Qu’est-ce qui est passé ? : What has moved/gone? ...