French/Lessons/Rural life

The verb, meaning to pursue, to torment, to carry on, or to sue, is conjugated in the same way as suivre.

Naître is the only -aître verb that takes être as its helping verb (and therefore agrees with the subject as a past participle in perfect tenses).

The verb is conjugated in the same way as naître.

When pronominal verbs are conjugated in perfect tenses, is used as the auxiliary verb.

Reflexive verbs
In perfect tenses, the past participles agree with the direct object pronoun, but not the indirect object pronoun, in gender and number. Therefore it would only agree when the reflexive pronoun is the direct object. Also remember that the past participle does not agree with the direct object if it goes after the verb.



Reciprocal verbs
Like reflexive verbs, the past participle of reciprocal verbs agrees in number and gender with the direct object if it goes before the verb. It therefore agrees with all reciprocal pronouns that function as direct objects.



The reciprocal pronoun can also function as an indirect object without a direct object pronoun.



Naturally pronominal verbs
In perfect tenses, these verbs agree with the direct object if it goes before the verb. Otherwise, the past participle agrees with the subject.



Note that assis(e)(es), the past participle of s'asseoir (to sit), does not change in the masculine plural form.