CBF 2:18 | Reflexive verbs in the perfect tense
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 6 July 2009
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this week's lesson, we take our knowledge of the perfect tense a stage further by looking at reflexive verbs. Please note that lesson 18 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 58 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 | As Helen opened her Amazon parcel, |
| 0:03.0 | her stomach filled with butterflies, rapid air technology, |
| 0:07.0 | and a grill mode feature, |
| 0:08.0 | this air-fryer tickled Helen's taste buds for a price lower |
| 0:11.0 | than she'd ever imagined. |
| 0:13.0 | Five stars from Helen. |
| 0:15.0 | Find star-rated products at star prices. |
| 0:18.0 | Start your search on Amazon today. |
| 0:31.0 | Tell you to move on to a coffee break French. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome back once again to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:36.0 | Now, so far, we've been looking at the perfect tense |
| 0:39.0 | and how we conjugate the perfect tense in a number of ways |
| 0:42.0 | we've looked at regular ER verbs. |
| 0:45.0 | IR verbs, RE verbs. |
| 0:47.0 | We've also looked at verbs which take ETHR in the perfect tense. |
| 0:51.0 | In this lesson, we're looking at one other group of verbs |
| 0:54.0 | and that's verbs which are reflexive. |
| 0:57.0 | So by the end of the lesson, you'll be able to say |
| 1:00.0 | when you got up, when you went to bed, and so on, |
| 1:03.0 | talking about the perfect tense, |
| 1:05.0 | talking about what you did in the past, |
| 1:07.0 | but using reflexive verbs. |
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