Rellexive Veros ~ Spanish Grama ir Context hilp:!/grammat-spensbintexas.cry) verosireflextves Hh srormarspanisitexes.org ranma sponsors onan! Reflexive Verbs amarse to be named ‘mellamo_ nos llamamos tollamas sellama—sellaman Areflexive ver, or pronominal vr is a vor thats accompanied by a fexivo pronoun. Ths verb eonstructon fs used when a person performs an action oo for hime In other word, the sujet of he verb ane the cic! abjct a the verb are the same person tis important to nate that exe verbs can sometimes be Lunintutive for English speakers because they are nat very common in Englsh yt they are used aut abit Spaish, So iis important to lear nat just hew to form Feflenve verbs but alsa when to use them. ‘You have probably already sen the refexve vor llamarse when you learned to invoduew yours in Spanish, as seen in the fs exampe below. Another typical use of teexve vers is personal cae and emotions, a8 seen in examples two and twee ‘Yo me llamo Dora y nac on MeAllon, Texas My name is Dora and Iwas bom in Melon, Texas. En a mafana te lovantabas y te levantabas a bafarte ali, Inthe moming you got up and you got up to bathe (yourself) in he river. Cuando nas reursmos, es como que estuviéramos on El Salvador. Todos nos ponemos folios, la bla que hacomas, a eutra nunca se doa \Wihen we get togethers ike we are n El Salvador, We al et so happy the ruckus that we make, you never et o of your eure. Formation To conjugate refexive verbs, the veri conugatod according lo the subject an the reflexive pronoun matches subject in person (1s, 2nd, or 3) and in number (singuar or plural nthe example, feyantabas is conjugated in the second person singular and feis also second parson singular. Also noe that ftexive vrbs can appear as infintve as wel such as bafarte because tne conjugated ver fovantabas acs a6 an ary vr, En la mafiana te levantabas y te levantabas a bart a fo. Inthe meming you got up and you go up to bathe (yourself n the river. Pronoun PlacementRellexive Veros ~ Spanish Grama ir Context hilp:!/grammat-spensbintexas.cry) verosireflextves ‘There ar wo places where reflexive pronouns canbe placed, as s2snin he example above. 1. Before a conjugated vord 2, tached othe end ofthe aro, ONLY IF the verb ie at conjugetd, such as infin or gerund or ifthe vet isan atime informal commanc: Uses Reflexive Actions and Emotions Rotiexive verbs often express rflxive actons, that, the eubject performs the action one ike base, fo bate, despertarse, fo woke up, sentase, fit ‘down or an emational response to something, Ike enojarse, to get angry, alegrarse, to get happy. aburise, fo become Bored, enamerarse, flim fve, c’almarse, 1 cam down, preeeuparse, fo worry. These verbs can be used as 1) rflexve vers or 2) nomeflexve verbs ithe ation Is being done ta someone ether than the subject. Noi how in he frst example the vero preocupar ia used reflexvely, mssning someone worrles about something. Whereas nthe second ‘example the vero preocupars nt reexve, mearing that something worries someone. In his examle, the dct objet meis and the subject eso. Nos preocupamos polo que es pasa. Nos preccupamos por qué ls al, por la salud de eos, pore! benestar. We worry about wast happens to them, We worry about wnat they'e missing, about tha health about thelr wel-being, zNunea hes estado enamorada? — Si, una vez sere, Pero ahora eso est abajo de mi lista. Eso no me preocupa. You've never been in ove? Yes, once | hi But ight now tha’ on the Bottom of my Ist. does not worry me Meaning Changes ‘Some verbs, when inthe regular o reflexive form, change their meaning as Soon inte table below Vorb Used Reflexively Used Non-Reflexi dormir 10 sleep ‘ofall asiop ir t0g0 {0.90 away to ave amar tobe named tocall evar tocary rnegar t0.dery pprobar tot totasteRellexive Veros ~ Spanish Grama ir Context hilp:!/grammat-spensbintexas.cry) verosireflextves (Compare the difference in meaning betwean th refexive verb llamarse anc the regular verb lamar, to callin the examples below: My name is Dora and | was bom in McAllen, Texas, Y mi pap lamé a vcin, ‘And my dad called my nesghbor Reflexives Only {Afow verbs can only be reflexive (burtarse, to make fun of, quajarse, fo complain, arrepentise, fo rogrl atrevarso, o daro, equivocarse fo make a stake, darse cuenta do, 0 realize, et.). These often do not evento describe a efexive action, ts just the gratia form tey take. No me daba cuenta de os ptgros. | was not aware ofthe dangors. Si me areplento de aio yo recuerdo de una manera muy tse Yes, regret something and Iremamber that in avery sad way. To Get Many times the English translation wil use the verb ge instead of using a ralexve construction. See nthe following examples how the Engish translation doesnot lose a reflexive vero wnere Spanish does. Me meta banarme y pues acabé de bafarme, pero ompecé a marearme muy fo y enlonces me arrasté hacia la puota | got in to take a bath and frishes bathing bul! started to got realy dizzy and then | dragged mysalf othe door With Body Parts LUnike English, when refexve verbs are used with parts of the body. hey take the deft arice (ela, los, la) rather than a possessive determiner ain English Cuando on la pemata me desmayé y me descalabré a cabeza When was in elementary school |fanted and hurt my nead [Mo avo tas manos con jain todos fs das. | wash my bands with soap every dy.