#pancakes&tea (corrigez-moi svp)
twin marten
limpid tide
C'est pas comme ça que j'ai compris la question ?
I guess you're talking about the verbes pronominaux ?
For exemple se promener, s'en aller, se succéder, se finir...
Basically they are verbs with a specificity: the first part "se/s'en" changes according to the subject:
je => me/m'en (+ promener)
tu => te/t'en (+ promener)
il/elle/on => se/s'en (+ promener)
nous => nous (+ promener)
vous => vous (+ promener)
ils/elles => se/s'en (+ promener)
The second part is conjugated like other verbs. A sentence with these could be:
Pendant que nous nous promenions, tu nous as dit au revoir et t'en es allé.
unique aspen
C'est pas comme ça que j'ai compris la question ?
I guess you're talking about ...
oui verbes pronominaux merci! ou aussi “cela” “lui” ?
when is this type of conjugation used? when talking about something else? like: “i walked his dog” -> je me balade chien lui?
i am very rusty with these types of verbs and when to use so i’d like some review!
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when is this type of conjugation used? when talking about something else? like: ...
"promener" would be transitive in this case, and not pronominal
"je promène son chien"
there are multiple reasons a verb can be pronominal:
- subject acts on itself (se laver)
- subjects act on one another (se battre)
- reflexive pronoun changes the meaning of the verb (s'appeler)
- verb can only be used pronominally (s'enfuir)
- passive action (se manger)
unique aspen
"promener" would be transitive in this case, and not pronominal
"je promène son ...
do you have any resources i can use to review these situations and conjugations?
also is this different from when lui, cela, elle, are used sometimes in conjugation?
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also is this different from when lui, cela, elle, are used sometimes in conjugat...
I don't understand what you mean by that though.
"lui" can be an object pronoun, for instance "je lui demande" but apart from that idk
do you have an example?
unique aspen
I don't understand what you mean by that though.
"lui" can be an object pronoun,...
this is what i mean, i just dont know when to use it
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this is what i mean, i just dont know when to use it
in that case it's explained in the articles I sent above!
"lui" here is short for who you're asking (I'm asking him/her => je lui demande)
unique aspen
ahh merci! maybe not relevant though, but how do you know when to use cela, ce, instead of je/tu/il/elle
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ahh merci! maybe not relevant though, but how do you know when to use cela, ce, ...
when talking about people?
unique aspen
oh okay, idk why i thought it was more complicated
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oh okay, idk why i thought it was more complicated
oh no I was asking
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because most of the time "cela" is used for unspecific or abstract things, for instance the situation as a whole
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for instance "cela va être difficile à croire" => "this is going to be hard to believe"
you're not talking about anything specific but rather a whole situation, something unspecific
"ça" is simply the contraction of "cela", a shorter form
and when using être as the verb, you have to use "ce" instead (contracts to c' before a vowel)
c'est probablement important => this is probably important