"et je m'étais préparé une journée aux petits oignons."
Since the speaker/narrator is clearly a women, wouldn't the sentence be...
"et je m'étais préparée une journée aux petits oignons." ???
Préparée?
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Drew B.Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Préparée?
This question relates to:French interactive reading exercise "Romance au marché"
Reading B1, Language & Education, Family & Relationships, Listening or Seeing B2
Asked 5 years ago
That's a good point, but the answer is still: no, préparé is correct, even if the speaker is a woman.
The explanation is that the true COD in this sentence is une journée and NOT me (this being a reflexive pronoun). Since the COD comes after the participle, the participle remains in the male form.
Chris W. Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
Les nuages se sont écartés. Here the COD "se" is before the participle.
Drew B. asked:
Préparée?
"et je m'étais préparé une journée aux petits oignons."
Since the speaker/narrator is clearly a women, wouldn't the sentence be...
"et je m'étais préparée une journée aux petits oignons." ???
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