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Reflexive Verbs Reflexive verbs are used to tell that a person does an action to himself or herself.

Reflexive Verbs Reflexive verbs have two parts: a reflexive pronoun (me, te, se, nos, se) and a verb form.

LAVARSE(to wash oneself) Reflexive Verbs LAVARSE(to wash oneself) Verb Form Reflexive Pronoun

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

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

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

Reflexive Pronouns me (myself) te (yourself) se (himself or herself) nos (ourselves) os (yourselves) se (themselves or yourselves)

TO WASH ONESELF We wash ourselves I wash myself You wash yourselves They wash themselves I wash myself You wash yourself He washes himself

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

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

Reflexive Pronouns Me voy a lavar el pelo. After the infinitive: Before the verb: Me voy a lavar el pelo. After the infinitive: Voy a lavarme el pelo.

Reflexive Verbs Let’s do more verbs!

CEPILLARSE me cepillo te cepillas se cepilla nos cepillamos os cepilláis se cepillan

DUCHARSE me ducho te duchas se ducha nos duchamos os ducháis se duchan

Reflexive Verbs When using reflexive verbs to talk about parts of the body, you have to use the definite articles: el, la, los, las

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

Reflexive Verbs Some verbs are not always reflexive:

Reflexive Verbs Yo despierto a Cecilia a las siete. I wake up Cecilia at seven. Yo me despierto a las siete. I wake (myself) up at seven.