Level 68 - Reflexive Verbs and Parts Of The Body

See Level 16 for an explanation of reflexive verbs. You will often find parts of the body used in conjunction with reflexive verbs in French. For example:

The reflexive element of the sentence (me, te, se etc.) is another way of saying 'my', 'your', 'his', 'her' etc. and is far more common than saying something like je lave mon visage. The me, te, se etc. mean 'to me', 'to you', 'to him/her' etc. Here are just some of the verbs which you might find being used in this way, including some referring to medical accidents:

Perfect tense

In Level 61 we learnt how all reflexive verbs need être to make the perfect tense. Note how the past participle (the part which tends to end in é, u or i) does not have any feminine or plural agreements in these sorts of phrases.

See Level 69 for a more detail on talking about medical problems.