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Reflexive Verbs

2. Reflexive Verbs
Reflexive verbs are used to tell that a person does something to or for him- or herself.
The person doing the action is doing it to or for themselves.
Keep it clean, people.

3. Reflexive Verbs
In English, we really don’t identify with reflexive verbs, so these will seem strange to you.

4. Reflexive Verbs
In English, a sentence using a “so called” reflexive verb might be…
Lauren brushes her hair.
Scott bathes himself.

5. Reflexive Verbs
You must remember that these are actions being done to oneself, by oneself. For example:
I wash my (my own) hair.

6. Reflexive Verbs: Break It Down, Ya’ll
In Spanish, reflexive verbs have two parts:
a reflexive pronoun
a verb form

7. Reflexive Verbs LAVARSE (to wash oneself) Reflexive Verb Pronoun FormME TE SE
NOS

8. Reflexive Pronouns
me (to or for myself) te (to or for yourself) se (to or for himself, herself, it)
nos (to or for ourselves) os (to or for ya’ll) se (to or for themselves, you all, or each other)

9. LAVARSE
me lavo te lavas se lava
nos lavamos os laváis se lavan

10. TO WASH ONESELF I wash myself (Me lavo.) You wash yourself (Te lavas.)
He, She, It washes himself, etc. (Se lava.)
We wash ourselves. (Nos lavamos.)
They wash themselves. (Se lavan.)

11. Reflexive Pronouns
They can either go before a conjugated verb or after an infinitive.

12. Reflexive Pronouns Me lavo el pelo. After the infinitive:
Before the verb:
Me lavo el pelo.
After the infinitive:
Voy a lavarme el pelo.

13. Reflexive Verbs
Let’s do more verbs!

14. CEPILLARSE – to brush me cepillo te cepillas se cepilla
nos cepillamos os cepilláis se cepillan

15. DUCHARSE – to shower me ducho te duchas se ducha
nos duchamos os ducháis se duchan

16. BAÑARSE – to bathe me baño te bañas se baña
nos bañamos os bañáis se bañan

17. LEVANTARSE – to get up me levanto te levantas se levanta
nos levantamos os levantáis se levantan

18. Reflexive Verbs
When using reflexive verbs to talk about parts of the body, use the definite article. (the el, la, los, las that mean “the”)

19. Reflexive Verbs
Nos lavamos el pelo.
Te cepillas los dientes?

20. Reflexive Verbs – Stem Changers
Acostarse (oue)
Me acuesto, te acuestas, se acuesta, nos acostamos, os acostáis, se acuestan