mr.moderino

[shell echo]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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[brittle folio]

direct and indirect object pronouns go before the main verb which is either (a) the verb that describes the action or (b) the auxiliary verb in compound tenses

in the case of the future proche "aller" is not considered an auxiliary verb, so you need to put the reflexive pronoun in front of the main verb, coucher

[misty oar]

Are these the indirect object pronouns? Je → me (I → myself)
Tu → te (You → yourself)
Il/Elle/On → se (He/She/One → himself/herself)
Nous → nous (We → ourselves)
Vous → vous (You → yourselves)
Ils/Elles → se (They → themselves)

Chatgpt says these are called Reflextive Verbs

Il va se coucher. He is going himself to bed/lie down

[brittle folio]

So, first of all, use real grammar ressources, not ChatGPT

lawlessfrench.com is a good one

me, te, se, nous, and vous can all act as either direct or indirect objects

[misty oar]

After 20 minutes I just finished that Busuu lesson of Future Proche and Reflective Verbs

Hmm

[misty oar]

Wait Chatgpt can't speak French? I was told speaking to Chatgpt was helpful

[brittle folio]

Of course chatgpt can't "speak" French
it's a computer program

it's a LLM that is quite good at predicting a logical string of text, but it has no idea how language or grammar actually functions

[misty oar]

Excuse me well*

Thats good to know

[brittle folio]

so, for practicing a conversation or something it can be a good tool
but don't ask it to explain grammar to you - it can make shit totally up

[misty oar]

Yeah I've been saying sentences and repeating it in Chatgpt to see if I wrote it correctly