Help! What are reflexive verbs?
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Which of the following is an example of a reflexive verb?
Estoy comiendo. Me llamo Jaime. Voy al parque. Fui al parque.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
2 Answers
Well, reflexive verbs are when someone is doing something to themselves. For example: I wash my hands a lot. "me lavo las manos con frecuencia." The reason "me" is there in front of lavo is to indiciate that I am washing my hands, thus making it reflect. The infinitive for the verb is llavarse. Whenever you see an infinitive with se on the end, it is a relfexive verb. It is important to know that not all verbs can be reflexive, and not all verbs that are reflexive have to be reflexive all of the time. It is possible to use llavar without it being reflexive.
When you look through the list of verbs you have, which one looks like it has the reflexive prounoun in front of it? reflexive pronouns are me, te, se, nos, os, se. I hope this has been helpful to you.
Llamarse is the reflexive verb in your list and carries in this case the personal pronoun me so it is me llamo, te llamas,se llama and those are the 1st 2nd and 3rd person. Clic on more at the top of this page then congugation from the drop down menu then type in the verb Llamarse to learn all the other tense and congugations
