Forming negative commands with reflexive verbs (L'Impératif)

Posted by Aurélie Drouard

In: Level B1, Negative Words & Constructions, Forme négative, Mode impératif, Voix pronominale

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Look at these negative commands (negative imperatives) that use reflexive verbs:

Ne t'assieds pas !  
Don't sit down!

Ne nous asseyons pas ! 
Let's not sit down!

Ne vous asseyez pas ! 
Don't sit down!

Notice that when forbidding (negative orders) using reflexive verbs, you keep the regular order of the words in a negative statement and simply drop the subject pronoun tu/vous/nous.

e.g. Tu ne t'assieds pas -> (X) Ne t'assieds pas!

Look at these other examples:

Ne t'habille pas!
Don't get dressed!

Ne te couche pas !
Don't go to bed!

Ne te lève pas !
Don't get up!

Note that for -er verbs, you lose the -s in the 'tu' form.

 

See also Forming affirmative commands with reflexive verbs (L'Impératif)

See also  Conjugate regular verbs in L'Impératif (imperative) 

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Chris

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24 October 2016

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I think the answer is wrong...

Should the translaten of "Don't go to bed yet" not be "Ne vous couchez pas encore" instead of only "Ne vous couchez pas" ? Methinks the "yet" isn't captured by the second translation. -- Chris.

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Chris

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24 October 2016

24/10/16

Sorry, my mistake. I just saw that "encore" is a given and mustn't be entered as part of the solution.

-- Chris.

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Jacqueline

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27 February 2018

27/02/18

I thought that the i with a circumflex had been optional since about 1990 in verbs

I wrote ne t'entraine pas without the circumflex

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