Questions & Answers about Je préfère me doucher ce soir.
Why is it me doucher instead of just doucher?
In French, actions you do to your own body, like showering, dressing, or brushing your teeth, are usually reflexive. You literally say "to shower myself". Because the subject is Je (I), you must use the matching reflexive pronoun me (myself).
Why does me go right before doucher instead of next to Je?
The pronoun belongs to the verb it directly applies to. Here, the action you are doing to yourself is showering, not preferring. Whenever a conjugated verb (like préfère) is followed by an infinitive (like doucher), the reflexive pronoun must go right before the infinitive.
Why are the accents in préfère pointing in different directions, unlike the dictionary form préférer?