49 PLURAL. Did we not dress ourselves? ne nous habillions-nous pas? PRESENT ANTERIOR PERIODICAL, OR PRETERITE. SINGULAR. Did I not dress myself? ne m'habillai-je pas? PLURAL. Did we not dress ourselves? ne nous habillámes nous pas? PRESENT POSTERIOR, OR future. SINGULAR. Shall I not dress myself? ne m'habillerai-je pas? PLURAL. Shall we not dress ourselves? ne nous habillerons-nous pas? PAST, OR COMPOUND OF THE PRESENT. SINGULAR. Have I not dressed myself? ne me suis-je pas PLURAL. habillé? Have we not dressed ourselves? ne nous sommes-nous pus habillés? PAST ANTERIOR, OR COMPOUND OF THE IMPERFECT. PAST ANTERIOR PERIODICAL, OR COMPOUND OF THE PRETERITE. Had I not dressed myself? ne me fus-je pas habillé? &c. VOL. II. PAST POSTERIOR, OR COMPOUND OF THE FUTURE. Shall I not have dressed myself? ne me serui-je pas habillé ? &c. PAST JUST ELAPSED. Have I not just dressed myself? ne viens-jc pas de m'habiller? &c. FUTURE INDEFINITE. Am I not to dress myself? ne dois-je pas m'habiller? &c. INSTANT FUTURE. Am I not going to dress myself? ne vais-je pas m'habiller? &c. CONDITIONAL. PRESENT. SINGULAR. Should I not dress myself? ne m'habillera ́s-je pas? PLURAL. Should we not dress ourselves? ne nous habillerions-nous pas ? PAST, OR COMPOUND OF THE PRESENT. Should I not have dressed myself? ne me serais-je pas habillé? &c. ESSENTIAL REMARK. There are several French verbs, which, though reflective, are not rendered as such in English; and, considering the frequent mistakes thus occasioned, we here subjoin a list of several verbs as are reflective in the French only, which the scholar is desired to commit to memory A LIST OF VERBS WHICH ARE REFLECTIVE IN FRENCH ONLY. S'attacher, to adhere, to stick. S'épanouir, to bloom. све ! S'évertuer, to strive. Se liquefier, to liquefy. Se méprendre, to mistake. de Se promener, to walk. Se rappeler, to recollect. Se réjouir, to rejoice. Se ressouvenir, to remember, I go, I do go, I am going, je vais. | We go, nous allons. Thou goest, &c. tu vas. He or she goes, il ou elle va. One, any body, &c. goes, on va. You go, vous allez. They go, ils ou elles vont. People, we, they, &c. go, on va. *The scholar, knowing, from the conjugation of porter and s'habiller, how the tenses of a regular verb are formed from the infinitive, may, by comparing any verb of that conjugation with aller, acquire a very just idea of what constitutes the irregularity of a verb. Etre is used instead of avoir, to form the past tenses: thus, we say, je suis all, I have gone, and never j'ai alle. SINGULAR. PLURAL. I should, would, or could go, j'irais. | We should go, nous irions. Thou shouldst go, tu irais. He should go, il irait. SINGULAR. You should go, vous iricz. SUBJUNCTIVE. That I may go, que j'aille. PRESENT. That thou mayst go, que tu ailles. That he may go, qu'il aille. PLURAL. That we may go, que nous allions. PRESENT ANTERIOR, OR IMPERFECT SINGULAR. That I might go, que j'allasse. That thou mightst go, que tu allasses. PLURAL. That we might go, que nous allassions. THE VERB REFLECTIVE, S'EN ALLER, TO GO AWAY, IS THUS CONJUGATED. INFINITIVE. PRESENT. To go away, s'en aller. PAST. To have gone away, s'en étre allé. |