Word
Je me réveille tôt, mais je me lève tard.
Meaning
I wake up early, but I get up late.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Je me réveille tôt, mais je me lève tard.
Why do we need me before the verbs here?
In French, actions you perform on yourself often use a reflexive pronoun. Réveiller means to wake someone else, so to say I wake up, you literally say I wake myself (Je me réveille). The same applies to Je me lève, which literally means I raise myself.
What is the difference between se réveiller and se lever?
Why does lève have an accent mark (è) when the dictionary form se lever does not?