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10. Cette infirmière attend un garçon is not reflexive.  Why in one answer This nurse is expecting a boy.

HI,

I was wondering there are two ways you can use to getting used to in a sentence. From my understanding would it be correct to use se Faire for the causative for having something done for someone just like the regular Faire causative? Also would you  use s'habituer for the most common?

Thank you

Nicole

One of the quizzes has a sentence:  La Castafiore faints (s'évanouir) all the time.

This question is totally unrelated to reflexive verbs, but I can't figure out what La Castafiore is.  Can you give a little history on this noun, please?  I enjoy picking up a little non-grammar knowledge from time to time.  Thanks.

This was the first test that I completed and I felt that it is difficult to here the some words because of the liaison.  How can I get better with listening. 

I know that it means "himself" or something like that, but it can not be a pronoms tiniques because :

moi=me

toi=you

lui=him

elle=her

nous=us

vous=you

eux=them 

elles=them 

So clearly for il we use lui not soi !

I came across "Mes amis sont très..." with the prompt, "My friends are very loyal.", during a practice exercise mixed with other assorted grammar concepts. Not realizing at the time that it was an exercise to practice different -al endings, my first instinct was to put "fidèles" rather than "loyaux". Could "fidèles" be an alternative answer? 

I found this clip on You Tube very useful to help clarify my understanding, and you may like it too! Object Pronouns with Madame Curnow - Part 2 (Sorry, this is not a question)