📖LearnModule 4 · Lesson 6 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, completedUnit 2 · Les verbes réfléchis — the reflexive day
Je me lève — waking up reflexive
Module 4 of the free French course (CEFR A2, completed), lesson 6 of 30: When the action points back at yourself. On this page: 7 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 6.
The words
French
English
Say it
se lever
to get up
suh luh-VAY
je me lève
I get up
zhuh muh LEV
tu te lèves
you get up
tew tuh LEV
il se lève
he gets up
eel suh LEV
nous nous levons
we get up
noo noo luh-VOH(n)
je me lève à sept heures
I get up at seven
zhuh muh lev ah set UHR
le réveil
the alarm clock
luh ray-VAY
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La règle · The rule
When the action points back at yourself, French says so: se lever (to get up) — je me lève, tu te lèves, il se lève. The little me/te/se is part of the verb.
Et aussi · And also
Je me lève à sept heures — I get up at seven. The reflexive day starts here.
Attention · Watch out
je me lève carries a grave accent (lève), but nous nous levons does not: the accent appears only where that e is stressed.
se lever — the table
je me lève · tu te lèves · il/elle se lève · nous nous levons · vous vous levez · ils/elles se lèvent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with se lever.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out se lever in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.