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Pronominal verbs, agreement of past participle.
In French, all pronominal verbs are used with the auxiliary 'être':
Il s'est lavé les mains. (He washed his hands)
Elle s'est perdue dans la forêt. (She got lost in the forest)
There are two kinds of pronominal verbs:
-Reflexive verbs: Elle s'est blessée (She got hurt). Here, the verb must agree with the subject since 's' refers to the subject 'Elle'.
Other examples: Ils se sont vus. Elles se sont battues.
-Non-reflexive verbs: Here, 's' does not refer to the subject : Elle s'est blessé la main. (She hurts her hand).
Other examples: Ils se sont cassé les bras. Ils se sont tendu les mains.
The trick from the French guy : Before writing down your sentence, try to determine if the verb is reflexive. When the sentence can respond to a 'qui' or 'quoi' question, then the verb is reflexive. The verb, however, is Non-reflexive if it can respond only to a 'à qui' or 'à quoi' question
Elle s'est blessée => Elle a blessé QUI ? => reflexive verb.
Ils se sont souri => Ils ont souri A QUI? => non-reflexive verb
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