Perfect tense of pronominal verbs

Pronominal verbs are verbs which have an extra word like me, te, etc. between the subject and verb. For example, je me lève, je m’appelle. This extra word is called an reflexive pronoun .

In the perfect the reflexive pronoun comes immediately before the auxiliary verb. For pronominal verbs the auxiliary verb is always être:

Here are some examples of pronominal verbs in use:

Je me suis levé à sept heures ce matin

I got up at seven o’clock this morning

Je me suis trompé de numéro

I got the wrong number

Je me suis lavé les mains

I washed my hands

Like être verbs, the past participle generally takes an agreement where the subject is feminine or plural :

Elle s’est souvenue de mon nom

She remembered my name

Nous nous sommes couchés tôt

We went to bed early

Ils se sont rencontrés à une soirée

They met at a party

Elles se sont promenées dans le parc

They had a walk in the park