Can you explain reflexive verbs and teach me how to conjugate them?

Of course!Reflexive verbs in Spanish are used when a person or thing is performing an action on itself.here is an example for each of the verb endings:lavarse - to wash oneselfverse - to see oneselfvestirse - to dress oneselfFrom these verbs we can spot some similarities:all the verbs show that the action is being done to oneself.all the verbs have a letters 'se' after their standard ar, er or ir endings.Conjugating reflexive verbs - Reflexive PronounsUnderstanding what reflexive verbs are is the hard part! Learning how to conjugate them is a piece of cake if you can learn the following pattern:Person Pronounyo (I) metú (you) teél / ella / ústed (he/she/ you - formal) senosotros (we) nosvosotros (you - plural - 'you guys') osellos / ellas / ustedes (they / you guys formal) se(It is important to distinguish between speaking to people formally and informally, if you were speaking to a close friend or group of close friends you would use the pronoun te or os respectively. however if you were talking to someone politely or a group of people politely you speak to them as if they were in the third person, so you would use the pronoun se for both an individual or a group of people).so, now that you understand what reflexive verbs are, how they are used, and how to generate the reflexive pronouns, it's time to practice conjugating!example 1. Desired sentence: I wash myselfverb needed: lavarsesubject: yo (I)we can look at our table and see that the reflexive pronoun for the subject I is 'me'so we put this pronoun before the conjugated verb, and our final answer is 'me lavo'notice that lavo is conjugated just as we would normally with the verb lavar in the first person.following down the table of subjects (yo, tú, él...... etc) with the verb lavar we have as follows:me lavo - I wash MYSELFte lavas - you wash YOURSELFse lava - he/she/it/you(formal) washes himself/herself/itself/yourselfnos lava - we wash OURSELVESos lava - you (pl) wash YOURSELVESse lava - they / you (pl, formal) wash THEMSELVES/YOURSELVEShere are a few more examples using the verbs listed at the beginning of this lesson:he sees himself - se veethey dress themselves - se vestenyou (pl) see yourselves - os veiswe dress ourselves - nos vestimos I hope these examples and the rest of the lesson have made sense.

Answered by Caylan G. Spanish tutor

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