Talk:French/Lessons/Everyday life

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Shouldn't it be "Jean et Paul, vous vous êtes levés assez tard." Not avoir but être should be used?

I have the exact same doubt...can a native speaker validate this??


 * I am going to (try to) answer, even though I can see the question has been asked a long time ago...
 * The verb être is correct in this example. The verb here is se lever, the pronominal form of lever (the difference in meaning is that while lever would mean to get up (someone else) (even though it doesn't mean anything with this verb), se lever means to get up (oneself). Pronominal verbs are ALWAYS conjugated with être.
 * This works with potentially every transitive French verb. Here you can see that the verb is pronominal because of the second vous which is the form of se at the 2nd pers plural. I hope I was clear, I am not used to explain things like that in English. --AurélieM Hi! 23:30, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Baigner
The audio sample doesn't match the IPA. Here's one that does: Baigner in French. Note the "e" in the IPA which is typical of "-er" endings in French. 174.148.159.20 (talk) 06:15, 2 November 2010 (UTC)