#Connor (corrigez-moi svp)
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ocean aspen
That's... Such a strange explanation
ChatGPT and AI in general is horribly unreliable for this kind of stuff
wide furnace
Voler (to fly) is intransitive yet uses avoir, not être.
ruby haven
Voler (to fly) is intransitive yet uses avoir, not être.
oh ok but how do i know when verbs use etre?
ocean aspen
It's literally just about what it would be in a normal sentence
wide furnace
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ocean aspen
^
wide furnace
And pronominal verbs.
ruby haven
ah ok, i thought it was nothing got to do with passe compose
ocean aspen
- pronominal
- Passive (but in that case it's an adjective, not the past participle, technically)
ocean aspen
ah ok, i thought it was nothing got to do with passe compose
All compound tenses work the same for auxiliary verbs
Including the infinitive
wide furnace
The bot gave you an unnecessarily complicated rule.
ocean aspen
And incorrect, ultimately
ruby haven
im sorry but i dont understand what pronominal verbs got to do with thise, could please explain it to me?
ocean aspen
They use être
ruby haven
oh yea
wide furnace
Se lever, se réveiller, s'appeler, etc. They all use être as Alba said.
Je me suis réveillé, etc.
ruby haven
+ pronominal
+ Passive (but in that case it's an adjective, not the past partici...
alr cool, and what does it mean here by passive?
ocean aspen
Passive constructions are like "it was eaten"
ruby haven
oh ok thank you
ocean aspen
You're describing the thing by a verb that happened to it
So it functions as an adjective
And bc it's an adjective, you use être with it
ruby haven
gotcha, and whats the opposite of a passive construction?
ocean aspen
Active
Something directly doing an action
I ate the apple => active
The apple was eaten by me => passive
Passive constructions are much rarer in french than in English
Though they do happen
ruby haven
I ate the apple => active
The apple was eaten by me => passive
sorry again but how does it link with gerondif passe?
ocean aspen
If you use a passive construction in gérondif passé it will keep the same "auxiliary"
En étant mangé,
Even though manger is not an être verb, as here it is an adjective
ruby haven
En étant mangé,
oh ok and what would the active look like?
ruby haven
ok tysm man! it didnt take that long for me to understand this because your explanation is very clear and thanks nameless one too! 🙏
ruby haven
For example
just out of curiosity, how much do you charge an hour for your tutoring?