Learn French: Je me brosse les cheveux et je cherche une serviette.

Je me brosse les cheveux et je cherche une serviette.

I brush my hair and I look for a towel.

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Questions & Answers about Je me brosse les cheveux et je cherche une serviette.

Why is there a me before brosse?

The verb here is se brosser (to brush). In French, when you do an action to your own body, you use a reflexive pronoun. Because the subject is je (I), the reflexive pronoun becomes me (myself). So literally, you are saying 'I brush to myself the hair.'

Why does it say les cheveux (the hair) instead of mes cheveux (my hair)?

In French, when you talk about body parts, you usually do not use possessive words like mes (my) if it is already clear who the body part belongs to. Because you used the reflexive pronoun me, we already know it is your own hair. So, you just use the definite article les (the).

Why is cheveux plural when 'hair' is a singular word in English?

In English, 'hair' is usually treated as a singular mass. But in French, un cheveu is a single strand of hair. When you brush your head of hair, you are brushing many strands, so it must be plural: les cheveux.

Where is the word for 'for' in je cherche une serviette?

The French verb chercher means 'to look for' or 'to search for' all by itself. You do not need to add an extra word like pour (for). You just put the thing you are looking for directly after the verb.