What are the differences between romper and romperse?

Question

-Mira,Sandra,¡qué bonitos zapatos! Me apetece comprar un par de éstos.

-Pero no me parece de buena calidad y pueden romperse fácilmente. A mí me gusta ese otro modeo,sobre todo el blanco.

Here's there's romperse, what are the differences beween romperse and romper? Why here is romperse but not romper?

modelo? - 0074b507, Nov 30, 2011

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this should be combined with my other post? But you asked for more examples so:

Los zapatos se rompen facilmente. The shoes were broken easily. (passive voice, unknown subject doing the breaking)

Él rompe los zapatos. He breaks the shoes. (active voice, he is the one doing the breaking)

Yo rompí mi brazo. I broke my arm. (active voice, I am the one doing the breaking)

Mi brazo se me rompiò. My arm was broken (to my disadvantage). OR My arm broke itself on me. (This is often called the se for accidental occurrences. It uses the passive voice because there isn't any subject in the sentence taking responsibility for the breaking since it was an accident.

super replies - 0074b507, Nov 30, 2011

Answer 2

Because it's accidental, it's like the shoes are breaking themselves (reflexive), without any specific actor doing the breaking, since they just fall apart from poor construction.

Answer 3

Any anyone give me examples of the differences between them two??