1. - Daily activities - Change of meanings - Reflexive only

2. The most common use of reflexives is to express actions that are done to oneself such as verbs used to describe daily actions.  Levantarse – to get oneself up  Lavarse – to wash oneself  Cepillarse los dientes – to brush one’s teeth

3.  Many verbs change meaning when they are in the reflexive form. Study the list on p. 155.  Ir – to gobut irse – to leave  Volver – to returnbut volverse – to become  Quedar –to be locatedbut quedarse – to stay

4. Some verbs exist only in their reflexive form.  Darse cuenta de – to realize  Quejarse – to complain  Portarse bien – to behave  Portarse mal – to misbehave

5.  Reflexive Pronoun + Conjugated Verb  menos teos+ Verbose  You may attach the reflexive pronoun to all infinitive verbs, gerunds -ing(ando/iendo), and affirmative commands. (You must attach to affirmative and must never attach to negative commands).

6.  Used to tell what people do to or for one another  Only use the first (nosotros) and third (ellos) plural form of the verb preceded by “nos” or “se”  Ex. Ellos se abrazan. They hug each other. Nosotros nos llevamos bien. We get along well.