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Reflexive pronouns in French

What is a reflexive pronoun?

Reflexive pronouns ("Les pronoms réfléchis" in French) are me, te, se, nous, vous. They are used with pronominal verbs. They always refer to the subject and are the same person as the subject. The reflexive pronoun also has disjoint forms (moi, toi, soi, nous, vous, eux) but these are used less frequently and in special cases.

Examples

• Il se regarde dans la glace.

He looks at himself in the mirror.

• Nous nous demandons si nous sommes bien habillés.

We wonder if we are well dressed.

• Tu t'es préparé pour le dîner au restaurant.

You got ready for dinner at the restaurant.

Video: Learn French Reflexive Pronouns with ease

Learn French reflexive pronouns easily in this short video. French reflexive pronouns can be tricky for English speakers. You are going to get an overview of this basic concept of French grammar so that you can start putting together sentences from scratch. Next, we'll see how to use them with ease.

Other Lessons

• Wrong use of neutral le in phrases where 'it' occurs in English
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Nouns which have the same spoken form but two different written forms
• Grammatical and real gender
• Recognizing when an unstressed pronoun is a direct object
• Subject–Verb Agreement
• Use of neutral le where no equivalent exists in English
• Reciprocal se and cases of potential ambiguity
• Omission of the article in participle + noun constructions linked by de
• Directly transitive verbs take the auxiliary “avoir”
• French Ditransitive verbs
• Position of more than one object pronoun with faire etc. + infinitive
• Proper Nouns
• Easy way of generating the simple past
• Stressed pronouns with ne — que and ni — ni — ne