"Reflexive verbs"

Question

Anyone knows how to use reflexive verbs in English?

Answer 1

We don't actually have a lot of reflexives in English. We tend to use the possessive in many of those situations, or the words myself-yourself-ourselves etc. (those are called reflexive pronouns)

I brush MY teeth, or I brush/comb MY hair, vs cepillarse o peinarase.

We do have the 'self suffix that we sometimes use.
I bathe myself or you dress yourself, vs bañarme o vestirte.

And in many cases, we just don´t use a reflexive where a Spanish speaker would.

I wake up, I get up, I sit down, I go to sleep instead of despertarse, levantarse, sentarse, dormirse etc

I´m sure there are many more examples, but one I can think of is that we do say ¨I enjoy myself¨ a bit like divertirse, but more often, we´d just say I have-had fun.

Basically, your job will be more one of unlearning the Spanish reflexive, rather than learning the English reflexive. In English, you´ll just have to learn when we tend to use the reflexive pronouns..

Buena suerte.

Roger

Answer 2

Muchas gracias Roger!!