about the verb "enojar"

Question

Today I learn a new verb "enojar" from the following sentence:

"La profesora se enoja con Lucas porque no sigue sus instrucciones."

I look up "enojar" in SD dictionary but it doesn't offer any example sentence.

1. I would like to know that whenever "enojar" is used in the sentence to express "A gets mad at B", should the reflexive pronoun like "me" or "se" also come along?

2. Besides the reflexive verbs introduced in the course 2.5 about the Morning Routine, do verbs related to emotion also need reflexive pronouns? Could you give me some example sentences?

Great question, Joy. I think the reflexive can be a bit tricky. - Findy, Aug 17, 2013

Answer 1

1. In your example sentence the verb is enojarse which it totally reflexive, in conjugation all reflexive pronouns are used. An example from my oft-cited wordreference.com: La verdad es que te enojas por cualquier tontería.

2. Verbs related to emotion can be reflexive. Example: alegrarse to be delighted, entristecerse to become sad. You really need to research any new verb of emotion to see if it has a reflexive form and what that means. It is incorrect to overgeneralize about categories of words in any language, because languages do not form out of logic.

I think I have given you a link to wordreference.com's Spanish-English dictionary. It is a really good tool to have up when using this site.

Thanks for your reply and advice. I'll make good use of wordreference.com. You're a great teacher! - joygogo, Aug 18, 2013

Answer 2

La profesora se enoja con Lucas porque no sigue sus instrucciones."

You can think of like this

The teacher IS angered by Lucas .....

Thanks, Ian! I could never get my head wrapped around the reflexive, but you did it in an instant! - Findy, Aug 17, 2013

Hi Findy - did you have a look at my Modals tables ? - ian-hill, Aug 17, 2013