CBF 2:03 | Using reflexive verbs in the present tense
Coffee Break French
Radio Lingua Network
4.6 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2009
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, we take a further look at daily routine, focusing particularly on reflexive verbs. We also look at time in more detail so we can say exactly when we carry out each part of our daily routine. Please note that lesson 03 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 43 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, taking in the views, |
| 0:09.6 | instead of taking on the road, maybe even taking a nap. That's the bliss of getting where you |
| 0:15.5 | need to go without worrying about driving. Book your train journey via avantiwascoast.co.uk |
| 0:23.0 | and we'll take you there. Avantiwascoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello, welcome once again to Coffee Break French. In lesson 43 we're adding another |
| 0:48.8 | type of verb to our range of verbs. It's called a reflexive verb. A reflexive verb is something |
| 0:54.1 | that you do to yourself. So for example, to dress yourself or to wash yourself. Sabier or |
| 1:02.0 | soot la veille in French. Now we'll be learning how to conjugate a reflexive verb in French and |
| 1:08.4 | you'll be able to add this to your daily routine. I hope that you find this lesson useful. |
| 1:25.1 | So over the past couple of weeks we've been looking at verbs in the present tense and specifically |
| 1:32.2 | add er verbs, regular er verbs. To begin with today we're going to review an er verb in its full |
| 1:40.0 | conjugation and once more I'd like you to be doing the actions again if you're in a public place you |
| 1:45.6 | might want to miss this out on to your back home. Let's conjugate rigolée, rigolée as |
| 1:52.1 | r-i-g-o-l-e-r and it's a nice verb it means to have a laugh or to have fun or just to laugh in some |
| 2:00.2 | situations. Rigolée. So starting with I, je rigolée. Tu rigolée. Tu rigolée. Il rigolée. Il rigolée. |
| 2:16.1 | Elle rigolée. Nous rigolons. Vous rigolée. Il rigolée. Il rigolée. Il rigolée. |
| 2:29.9 | Elle rigolée. Espitata pas de l'autre. Je rigolée. Tu rigolée. Il rigolée. Elle rigolée. |
| 2:37.8 | Je rigolée. Tu rigolée. Il rigolée. Il rigolée. Il rigolée. Elle rigolée. |
| 2:46.8 | Nous rigolons. Vous rigolée. Il rigolée. Elle rigolée. |
| 2:52.2 | Ok quite a tricky verb to say. Actually when you say je rigolée, it means I'm joking. |
| 2:57.8 | You know if you say something and you're perhaps being cheeky to someone like I was cheeky to me earlier, |
| 3:02.6 | she could have said je rigolée. Je rigolée. It means I'm joking. I'm just having a laugh. |
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