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What Are Reflexive Verbs

Have you ever stopped to think about your daily routine? You actually do a lot of things from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed at night. In Spanish, we express a lot of these actions with reflexive verbs. In English, reflexive verbs are roughly the equivalent of 'self' and 'selves.' For example, he dresses himself, we wake ourselves up, etc.

Let's first have a look at some of the reflexive verbs in Spanish. You'll see that each of the infinitive forms has a 'se' at the end, letting us know that it is a reflexive verb.

despertarse - to wake up

levantarse - to get up

lavarse - to wash (some part of your body)

cepillarse - to brush

peinarse - to comb

bañarse - to take a bath

ducharse - to take shower

maquillarse - to put on makeup

afeitarse - to shave

arreglarse - to get ready

vestirse - to get dressed

ponerse - to put on

quitarse - to take off

acostarse - to go to bed

Here are a few more reflexive verbs that aren't related to your daily routine:

llamarse - to be called

enojarse - to get angry

enfermarse - to get sick

casarse - to get married

Of course, there are many more reflexive verbs, but these are the most common and will be the focus for this lesson.

How to Conjugate Reflexive Verbs

So now we can recognize a reflexive verb, but how do we conjugate it? Easy! Just think of it as a regular -ar, -er, and -ir verb with an additional component. Let's first group them into -ar, -er, and -ir verbs.

You'll notice that we have more -ar verbs than any other, so we'll start with those.

Let's look at llamarse since you will probably already recognize its conjugations. Reflexive verbs have two parts that need to be conjugated, the infinitive ( llamar) and the reflexive pronoun 'se.' In this form, llamarse means 'to call oneself.'

We conjugate llamar as we would any other -ar verb.

We would be finished if we were conjugating the verb llamar - to call. But we are conjugating llamarSE - to call oneself. We also need to include the reflexive pronouns. These are:

These pronouns come before the conjugated base form.

So when you are introducing yourself, you are literally saying, 'I call myself...' then, you call yourself, he calls himself, we call ourselves, they call themselves, etc.

Let's look at another - maquillarse. Again, we have the infinitive maquillar and the reflexive pronoun 'se.'

Bien! You would follow this same pattern for all of the other regular -ar verbs.

Did you happen to notice the asterisk next to despertarse and acostarse? That's because these are stem-changing reflexive verbs. Remember the stem change only applies to the verbs inside the boot.

Desp(e)rtarse has a an 'e' to 'ie' stem change. The rest of the conjugations are made as usual.

Ac(o)starse has an 'o' to 'ue' stem change.

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Have you ever stopped to think about your daily routine? You actually do a lot of things from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed at night. In Spanish, we express a lot of these actions with reflexive verbs. In English, reflexive verbs are roughly the equivalent of 'self' and 'selves.'

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The Simba Cheated Method

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This is a great resource and video to watch top learn the sounds corretly. It is extremely long, but I strongly recommend

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Learn how to say the letters and sounds in Spanish

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