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[strange fossil]

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[jolly gull]

This is because of inversion, one of the methods for asking a question. When a question is inverted, the subject is included inside of the negation

[broken stream]

What about when I gotta use passé composé with a verb that has "me" before? Like se réveiller?

Do I say je m'ai réveillé?

[jolly gull]

Pronominal verbs all use être when conjugating compound tenses, so it would be "je me suis réveillé"

[rose cipher]

Note that the correct sentence also needs a hyphen

• N'es-tu pas parti ?

[jolly gull]

And don't forget that when using être to conjugate a verb, the past participle generally has to agree with the gender and number of the subject

[broken stream]

Wym?

[jolly gull]

Elle s'est réveillée

[broken stream]

My bad I always forget about the hyphen

[jolly gull]

Note the extra E

[broken stream]

Ooh alright

Got it

Thank you!! Have a good one

[austere scarab]

You can think of the second part of the negation like « pas, jamais, rien » in « ne … pas, ne … jamais, ne … rien » etc as adverbs – and really, they are adverbs – and adverbs can be interrupted by an inversion.
« Tu es vraiment parti -> Es-tu vraiment parti ? »
« Tu n'es jamais parti -> N'es-tu jamais parti ? »
Same principle.