Reflective Verbs Example

The reflective verbs or reflexives in English, as well as in Spanish, are those in which the subject's action falls on himself, using a reflexive pronoun to conjugate himself.

There are some reflective verbs which are in Spanish but not in English, in addition to the fact that it is not always necessary to use the reflexive pronoun to conjugate them.

Examples of reflective verbs:

• To wash
• To wash oneself
• To prepare / prepare
• To prepare oneself / prepare myself

There are some reflective verbs in Spanish that in English they are not.

To get up / get up

To sit down

To wake up

It is not always necessary to conjugate verbs reflexively.

In the morning, I wash myself and I shave myself / In the morning, I wash and shave myself.

It is more correct to say: In the morning, I wash and shave

Examples of conjugation of reflective verbs in English:

To wash oneself

I clean myself / I clean myself

You clean yourself / you clean yourself

He clean himself / he cleans himself

She clean herself / she cleans herself

It clean itself / is cleaned (animal, thing)

We clean ourselves / we clean ourselves

You clean yourselves / You clean yourselves

They clean themselves