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Michael Kremer's avatar

Another thing the examples illustrate but which is unintuitive for English speakers (and which I got from the examples): when the verb is reflexive the auxiliary is "être", even if the auxiliary is "avoir" when the same verb is not reflexive.

The use of the article that you illustrate goes also with what are, strictly speaking, non-reflexives like in your last four examples, where one person is doing something to another person. But in those examples the auxiliary is "avoir".

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Frederic's avatar

That's correct! Thanks for pointing it out.

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