Bob est réveilléWrite "Bob is woken up by the alarm clock every day." : Bob ________ le réveil tous les jours.
The correct answer is "Bob est réveillé par le réveil tous les jours.
I get that the alarm clock is the subject, that Bob is the object, so the sentence is in the passive voice. What confuses me is "est réveillé." What tense is that? Since it is habitual, I think of l'imparfait ("réveillait"). Then "est reveillé" seems like passé composé, with an auxilliare followed by the participe passé, but avoir is the auxilliare for réveiller, not être. Word Reference shows reveillé as an adjective, but it seems like a verb as it is used in this sentence.
I'm sure as soon as I hit "Ask Question" the answer will be blindingly obvious to me, but in case that doesn't happen, could someone clear this up? Thanks!
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Write "Bob is woken up by the alarm clock every day." : Bob ________ le réveil tous les jours.
The correct answer is "Bob est réveillé par le réveil tous les jours.
I get that the alarm clock is the subject, that Bob is the object, so the sentence is in the passive voice. What confuses me is "est réveillé." What tense is that? Since it is habitual, I think of l'imparfait ("réveillait"). Then "est reveillé" seems like passé composé, with an auxilliare followed by the participe passé, but avoir is the auxilliare for réveiller, not être. Word Reference shows reveillé as an adjective, but it seems like a verb as it is used in this sentence.
I'm sure as soon as I hit "Ask Question" the answer will be blindingly obvious to me, but in case that doesn't happen, could someone clear this up? Thanks!
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4) Combien de temps vous avez resté = Pendant combien de temps vous avez resté?
Thank you.
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Thank you
Hi, seems like the verb tomber most definitely belongs to the set of verbs which can take either auxiliary in the passé composé, depending on their transitive/intransitive usage.
As an example of such a verb, see your very helpful page here:
Monter can be used with avoir or être in Le Passé Composé depending on its meaning in French
Could you please confirm that tomber indeed deserves such a page, and in general remark on whether about 20 other verbs deserve one also (albeit not very commonly used ones?)
Thank you!
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