📖LearnModule 5 · Lesson 4 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridgeUnit 1 · The grand review: people
The reflexive day, replayed
Module 5 of the free French course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 4 of 30: The whole reflexive routine in one breath: je me réveille. On this page: 6 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 4.
The words
French
English
Say it
je me réveille
I wake up
zhuh muh ray-VAY
je me lève
I get up
zhuh muh LEV
je me lave
I wash
zhuh muh LAHV
je m'habille
I get dressed
zhuh mah-BEE-yuh
je me couche
I go to bed
zhuh muh KOOSH
tôt ou tard
early or late
toh oo TAHR
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
The whole reflexive routine in one breath: je me réveille, je me lève, je me lave, je m'habille, je me brosse les dents, je me couche.
Et aussi · And also
Then at someone else: il se lève à six heures — et toi, tu te lèves à quelle heure?
Attention · Watch out
The reflexive pronoun changes with the person: je me lève, tu te lèves, il se lève. Listing the routine fast is where me, te and se get dropped — keep them.
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 6 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with je me réveille.
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.