Je vais me doucher maintenant.

I am going to take a shower now.

Breakdown of Je vais me doucher maintenant.

• je: I
• maintenant: now
• aller: to go
• doucher: to shower

Questions & Answers about Je vais me doucher maintenant.

What does me do in Je vais me doucher maintenant?

Me is a reflexive pronoun meaning myself.
The verb is se doucher (to shower oneself), so you must add the matching reflexive pronoun:

• je → me
• tu → te
• il/elle/on → se, etc.

Without me, the sentence would change meaning and sound wrong in this context.

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Why is it Je vais me doucher and not Je me vais doucher?

In French, with a structure like aller + infinitive (the near future), the reflexive pronoun goes right before the infinitive, not before aller.

So:

• Correct: Je vais me doucher.
• Incorrect: Je me vais doucher.

You put the pronoun next to the verb it “belongs” to: here, that verb is doucher, not vais.

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Why is doucher not conjugated here?