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surely fatiqué is conjugated with avoir and not être. Yet the answer to the question I have posted below uses soyez and not avoir

Jim D.C1Kwiziq community member

surely fatiqué is conjugated with avoir and not être. Yet the answer to the question I have posted below uses soyez and not avoir

2Je vais vous ramener chez vous avant select ...que vous n'êtesque vous ne soyezvous êtesvous soyezselect ... trop fatigués. (I'm going to bring you home before you're too tired.)
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GruffNative French expert teacher in Kwiziq

Hi Jim, I think you might be confusing the rules for avoir/être as an auxiliary in compound tenses like le passé composé - fatigué isn't a verb so it's not a question of conjugation, it's an adjective:

Je suis fatigué. 
Vous êtes fatigués.
Vous soyez fatigués.

Make sense?

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Jim D. asked:

surely fatiqué is conjugated with avoir and not être. Yet the answer to the question I have posted below uses soyez and not avoir

2Je vais vous ramener chez vous avant select ...que vous n'êtesque vous ne soyezvous êtesvous soyezselect ... trop fatigués. (I'm going to bring you home before you're too tired.)

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