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rich cradle
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@swift hawk

swift hawk
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Yes

rich cradle
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Passé is like oassed and s’estis line gonna gonna go

swift hawk
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When I did Google translate it says that s’est is either has or went so im confused

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In other sentences does s’est mean has

small monolithBOT
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<s’est meaning>

marsh arrow
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do you know what a reflexive verb is?

rich cradle
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No

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Its a slim

marsh arrow
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do you understand what the passé composé is?

swift hawk
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Yes

rich cradle
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Nah

swift hawk
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😭

rich cradle
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Fquel

marsh arrow
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look that up first

swift hawk
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Guys im 15 doing school exams

rich cradle
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Where do u come from brother

swift hawk
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My teacher said don’t go complex

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England

rich cradle
swift hawk
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Guyssss what is s’est

marsh arrow
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you can't understand s'est if you don't know what a reflexive verb is

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or what the passé composé is

rich cradle
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S’est is frome le verbe etre

marsh arrow
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because it's just the passé composé with a reflexive verb

rich cradle
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Etre is be

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And s’est is passé composé

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Its complex brother

marsh arrow
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<@&254476057455886337> meringui is trolling

swift hawk
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In this sentence does it have a word in English

rich cradle
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???

swift hawk
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Or is it like a joining thing like à or de

rich cradle
swift hawk
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I’m a girl

rich cradle
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Okay ?

swift hawk
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U keep saying brother

rich cradle
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So s’est is from the verb etre i think

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And etre is be

lean forum
rich cradle
lean forum
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It's best to be direct and concise

rich cradle
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I do my best idk what is s’est too

lean forum
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If you don't know, it's best not to answer and let someone else explain, otherwise you're just adding confusion.

swift hawk
paper harness
# swift hawk 😭

Brief explanation: a reflexive verb refers to the subject (something the person does to themself):

Je me dis que ...
I tell myself that ...
Or
Je me douche.
I shower (myself).

rich cradle
swift hawk
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Yess like the thing

rich cradle
rich cradle
swift hawk
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doesn’t s’est kinda like describe the past tense

rich cradle
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Yes

swift hawk
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So what’s that got to do with être

rich cradle
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Bc of the diftongue

coral umbra
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Se passer = to happen

S’est passé is the passé composé of se passer

swift hawk
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Ohh

paper harness
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Se passer is reflexive, indicated by 'se' in the front.

swift hawk
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So does it indicate what tense ur saying

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Is that all

paper harness
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The tense of a verb is just the 'time' it's in.

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Past, present, future, etc.

swift hawk
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S’est isn’t a verb right

coral umbra
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It isn’t

swift hawk
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Is it saying is

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But in the past tense

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But not was

marsh arrow
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s'est is se plus est

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est is a verb

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se is a pronoun

swift hawk
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Ohh

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Pronoun

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Is it the problem I?

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pronoun

marsh arrow
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no

swift hawk
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What pronoun is it

marsh arrow
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it's the third person reflexive pronoun

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read this

paper harness
# swift hawk But in the past tense

Most verbs in the passé composé, like 'I ate -> J'ai mangé', use 'avoir'. However, reflexive verbs use être :

J'ai mangé -> I ate (avoir).
Je me suis dit -> I told myself (être).

swift hawk
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That’s i

marsh arrow
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yes...

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me is the first person singular reflexive pronoun

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se is the third person

swift hawk
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Like im referring to me

coral umbra
# swift hawk So what’s that got to do with être

Être is just used to make the passé composé of reflexive verbs.

Se coucher:
Je me suis couché(e)
Tu t’es couché(e)
Il/elle s’est couché(e)
Vous vous êtes couché(e)(s)
Nous nous sommes couché(e)s
Ils/ elles se sont couché(e)s

swift hawk
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So it’s not specific to s’est but to the verb right

marsh arrow
swift hawk
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😭

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I’ve had a whole thing abt passé compose in the past im getting flashbacks

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Thanks guys this is so hard for me help

marsh arrow
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you need to learn it lol

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in order to understand this

swift hawk
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Yes

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Should i read through the link

marsh arrow
paper harness
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It's just the conjugation of avoir/être plus the past participle.

swift hawk
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Ohhh i see

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Is h muet a silent h like l’hôpital

paper harness
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Yes.

swift hawk
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Yayy okay good i get that

paper harness
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You can think of it as 'mute'.

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The opposite is 'h aspiré'.

swift hawk
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And is that when you actually say the h

paper harness
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Correct.

frosty grove
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Well, the H is never pronounced in French

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"H aspiré" is a bit of a misnomer because it's silent too, but makes the vowels act like there's a consonant

marsh arrow
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h aspiré just means that it doesn't act like a vowel

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so you la hauteur instead of l'hauteur

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but you never, ever, pronounce the h sound

swift hawk
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Ohh i see

swift hawk
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Good to know for my February one 😭

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Thanks guys