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• Reflexive Verbs

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Reflexive Verbs

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

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Reflexive Verbs

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

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Reflexive Verbs

• LAVARSE(to wash oneself)

Verb Form
Reflexive Pronoun
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Reflexive Verbs

• In English, we really dont identify with
  reflexive verbs. So these will seem strange to
  you.

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Reflexive Verbs

• In English, a sentence using a so called
  reflexive verb might be
• Lauren brushes her hair.
• Scott bathes himself.

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Reflexive Verbs

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

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Reflexive Pronouns

• me (myself)
• te (yourself)
• se (himself or herself)

• nos (ourselves)
• os (yourselves)
• se (themselves or yourselves)

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

• me lavo
• te lavas
• se lava

• nos lavamos
• os laváis
• se lavan

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Reflexive Pronouns

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

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Reflexive Pronouns

• Before the verb
• Me voy a lavar el pelo.
• After the infinitive
• Voy a lavarme el pelo.

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Reflexive Verbs

• Lets do more verbs!

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CEPILLARSE

• me cepillo
• te cepillas
• se cepilla

• nos cepillamos
• os cepilláis
• se cepillan

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DUCHARSE

• me ducho
• te duchas
• se ducha

• nos duchamos
• os ducháis
• se duchan

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Reflexive Verbs

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

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Reflexive Verbs

• Nos lavamos el pelo.
• Te cepillas los dientes?

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Reflexive Verbs

• Some verbs are not always reflexive

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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.