Module 4 of the free French course (CEFR A2, completed), lesson 9 of 30: The sandwich holds the whole reflexive: Je NE me lève PAS tôt le samedi. On this page: 6 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 9.
| French | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| je ne me lève pas tôt | I do not get up early | zhuh nuh muh lev pah TOH |
| tu te lèves à quelle heure? | what time do you get up? | tew tuh lev ah kel UHR |
| le samedi, je me lève tard | on Saturdays I get up late | luh sahm-dee zhuh muh lev TAHR |
| tu ne te couches pas? | are you not going to bed? | tew nuh tuh koosh PAH |
| se dépêcher | to hurry | suh day-peh-SHAY |
| dépêche-toi! | hurry up! | day-pesh-TWAH |
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.
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
The sandwich holds the whole reflexive: Je NE me lève PAS tôt le samedi. Tu ne te couches pas?
Questions as ever: Tu te lèves à quelle heure? Est-ce que tu t'habilles avant le petit déjeuner?
The ne…pas sandwich wraps the pronoun and the verb together: je NE me lève PAS — never je me ne lève pas.
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.
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