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Questions tagged [verbes-pronominaux]

À propos des verbes conjugués avec un pronom renvoyant au sujet.

Les verbes essentiellement pronominaux sont toujours conjugués avec un pronom renvoyant au sujet. Les verbes accidentellement pronominaux ne le sont que lorsque l'objet se trouve être identique au sujet.

L'auxiliaire des verbes pronominaux est exclusivement le verbe être.

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Is there a good explanation of different types of pronominal verbs?

Question Is there any traditional or accepted classification of French pronominal verbs by how they are related to their respective non-pronominal forms? As a beginning student of French I have noticed that this relationship can vary from verb to…
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What is the difference between "se chercher" and "chercher"?

Is there a difference between the following two sentences? a) Elle cherche un emploi. b) Elle se cherche un emploi. (I saw sentence B in a youtube video, and I generated sentence A using deepL translator) I know from the answer to this question,…
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Approcher vs. s’approcher

I’ve studied this quite a bit, and can’t seem to get my head around the difference between these two verbs. I hear that approcher isn’t used much anymore, and s’approcher mostly takes the spotlight. Is this true? Can someone explain the subtle…
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Agreement of past participle of pronominal verbs

What is the difference between the two sentences below: Elle s'est coupée au doigt. and Elle s'est coupé le doigt.
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Croiser les doigts : pronominal?

J’imaginais que l’expression en français pour to cross one’s fingers qui signifie faire le geste pour supplier de la chance ou d’éviter furtivement d’engager à une promesse était se croiser les doigts comme se frotter les mains ou se couper les…
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“I’ll take care of it” = je m’y occupe / je m’en occupe ?

Can it be translated both ways? From my understanding, “s’occuper de” and “s’occuper à” are two different verbs, with various meanings that slightly overlap. The overlapping definition seems to be “to handle / to deal with / to take care of.” So…
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Why use “être” with pronominal verbs in complex tenses?

While some verbs with intransitive sense use "être" for complex tenses (Je suis entré), other verbs with transitive sense use "avoir" to show subject-object relations: Je les ai vus. ("Je" - subject, "les" - object). Pronominal verbs are always…
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Is an object pronoun considered reflexive when the object its replacing is a subset (or superset) of the subject?

Background (these are some assumptions I'm making. I'm writing these out in case my assumptions are incorrect) : Suppose you have a simple sentence with a transitive verb, and you re-write that sentence with an object pronoun. If the object of the…
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S’envoler vs. envoler

I saw a thread here recently that said the verb s’envoler expresses the act of the subject flying away, or taking off, due to the pronominal s’ at the beginning. So what, then, does envoler mean, without the reflexive pronoun?
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