What is a reflex pronoun?
is a relflex pronoun mi, me, te, le or is it somthing else?/?
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Hi and welcome to the forum,
Here is an article that should be helpful:reflexive pronouns
You will have to scroll down past the reflexive verbs.
me te and se normally works as reflexive pronouns. mi is a possessive pronoun.
About the "se" when I was going to spanish grammar in school, you could have around 10 different uses with it (verb, reflex pronoun...)
Narrow definition of reflexive verb. (a verb being used reflexively)
In grammar, a reflexive verb is a verb whose semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the subject and the direct object) are the same. For example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself.
More general definition of reflexive verb: [a pronominal verb]
In a wider sense, the phrase refers to any verb form whose grammatical object is a reflexive pronoun, regardless of semantics; such verbs are also referred to as pronominal verbs, especially in grammars of the Romance languages.
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There is no such thing as a "reflexive pronoun"
I don't agree with that statement. If Spanish had a fixed set of pronouns that could be used as dative, accusative, reflexive, object of preposition, subject, etc. depending on its location or some other attribute, then I would agree. But as long as it has pronouns that can only be used as one category or the other they can be termed by that category. Save the stupid use of se as a dative pronoun before an accusative pronoun starting with "l", it can only be used as a reflexive pronoun (using the wider definition of a reflexive pronoun- with a pronominal verb).
Similiarly, le is only an dative pronoun (save for the other stupid allowance of it in the leísmo. [an accusative pronoun].)
mí and ti, as far as I can think of, can only be an objects of the preposition.
As long as each category of pronouns has unique members they can be listed as separate sets.
If they were like the long form possessive adjectives (mío, tuyo, etc.) and possessive pronouns ( el mío, el tuyo, etc.) where only the location and the use of a definite article distinguish them, then I would agree that you could not categorize them.
There is no such thing as a "reflexive pronoun".. The are, however, pronouns that can (are usually) be used reflexively. By the same token, there are no reflexive verbs, only verbs that can be used reflexively.
