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[runic imp]

i need help with writing an essay/paragraph

it’s about my routine and this is what i have for english draft

this is rough rough draft with many errors in spelling so don’t worry to much about that i just want help translating

[tame geyser]

we won't do the whole thing for you, try translating first and then we'll correct

[runic imp]

i don’t want you to

i want you to explain the method of translation

i understand past tense

but the tense i have to use now is confusing and i don’t know how to conjugate stuff

[tame geyser]

what tense is it? do you have indications about what tense to use?

i'd just use the simple present

[runic imp]

reflective verbs

is what i am required

to use

[runic imp]

present

[tame geyser]

ohh well that's not a tense, you just have to use reflexive pronouns

[runic imp]

yes

[tame geyser]

like se doucher => je me douche

[runic imp]

i struggle with those

[tame geyser]

je me
tu te
il se
nous nous
vous vous
ils se

[runic imp]

my teacher gave me these slides

[tame geyser]

wow she made a mistake in the first line XD

no de after comment

[runic imp]

oh

[tame geyser]

*correspond

[runic imp]

that might have been her intern lol

[tame geyser]

*premier

*correspond à

[runic imp]

uhm but i still don’t understand

like how to apply this while writing

is there a way that kids learn this

[tame geyser]

nous nous dépêchons chez nous
nous nous dépêchons de rentrer (chez nous)*

which part do you struggle with?

[runic imp]

just everything

i missed a lot of this lesson so i’m behind

[tame geyser]

okay so you wrote "i get dressed"

the verb for that is s'habiller

s' is just se, it's shortened when the following word starts with a vowel

and the h is silent so it doesn't count

so try conjugating that

it's like a normal verb but you keep the pronoun between the subject and verb

and change it depending on the first pronoun

you know all the jargon i'm using right xd

[runic imp]

if your talking about the words verb and stuff yes

[tame geyser]

yeah and pronoun, subject...

[runic imp]

yeah

[tame geyser]

so
je + s'habiller => ?

[runic imp]

sorry i’m writing it out first so i might need a minute

[tame geyser]

sure

[runic imp]

the ‘s doesn’t impact “je me” does it?

[tame geyser]

well

s' is se
and se is what you replace with me

[runic imp]

right now what i have is “je me hab”

je me suis habillé

[tame geyser]

there you go

thats perfect

[runic imp]

okay so to put that in easy terms i have my pronoun , reflex pronoun and my verb

i think i understand better now

[tame geyser]

yeah

that's really all there is to it xd

well

je me suis habillé is passé composé tho

not present

[runic imp]

oh

yea

that’s what i needed

tysm

i’ll translate these two and come back

for brushing teeth

the verb is se brosser

so saying i brush my teeth

je me suis brosser les dents?

[tame geyser]

brossé

but thats still passé composé

for the present you dont need the être

[runic imp]

i don’t need present sorry i ment passe

[tame geyser]

well then don't forget the é

[runic imp]

i think i did caresseé wrong

i think it’s caressé

[tame geyser]

yes

uhm

theres a lot of mistakes

i mean using passé composé to talk about habits is just wrong

and in french it's more common to say tous les matins rather than chaque matin

and you can't make all those verbs reflexive

[runic imp]

oh

could you highlight the sentences i should change

[stoic mulch]

Chaque matin, je me suis caressée (1, 1a, 1b) mon chiens (2). Je ne mange pas (1) petit déjeuner (3) à la maison. Après, je me suis habillé (1), je me brossé (1, 4) les dents et partir (5).

Chaque nuit, je me suis caressée (1, 1a, 1b) mon chiens (2). Je mange (1) une collation et je me suis douché (1). Après je prends (1) des médicaments et jouer (5) à des jeux vidéo. Enfin, je me suis reposé (1).
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(1) As a general rule, when we're talking about habitual stuff, we have to use the imparfait. The passé composé is more used for stuff that we do either a few times or a lot of times but not habitually. « Je suis allé à l'école » implies that you went to school either a few times then stopping or a lot of times but inhabitually as if you went to school in the morning, afternoon, evening or even on different days. « J'allais à l'école » implies that you went to school at an exact time every day, say at 08.00 every weekday.
(1a) When you have a reflexive structure, it often does not take a direct object. Compare « je promène mon chien (I walk my dog/I take my dog out on a walk) » vs « je me promène (I take a walk) ». In certain cases, reflexives can take direct objects like « je me suis brossé les dents » but that's because parts of the body have this construction of a reflexive plus the part of the body with the definite article. In English, we can say 'I brush my teeth' but in French it has to be « Je me brosse les dents ».
(1b) Here you have « caressée » which is feminine but you also have « douché, habillé » which are masculine. Past participles with auxiliary verbs in « être » tend to agree with the subject (exceptions exist!) so stay consistent.

(2) The possessive has to agree with the noun in gender and number. Since « chiens » is masculine plural, the possessive has to be masculine plural as well. Compare « mon portable, mes portables, ma poubelle, mes poubelles. ».
(3) As a general rule, nouns have articles accompanying them. If your noun isn't definite (the) nor indefinite (a, an), then you use the partitive (du, de la, des). You can't just say « J'ai thé » but rather « J'ai du thé ».
(4) You're missing the auxiliary verb here. Remember that compound tenses MUST have an auxiliary and a past participle; you can't have one without the other.
(5) Verbs still have to be conjugated after conjunctions like this. You should learn how to decompose sentences. For example, if I have this sentence: « J'ai ramassé mon portable et pris les clés ». In effect, what I actually have is: « J'ai ramassé mon portable, j'ai pris les clés. » Because we have that conjunction « et », however, we can omit the subject and auxiliary because they're both present in the sentence; remember, adding « et » means we avoid repetition. In your paragraphs, both « partir » and « jouer » should be conjugated because what you have is: « Je me suis habillé, je me suis brossé les dents, et je partir / je prends des médicaments et je jouer ».

@runic imp