Reflexive Verbs

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Reflexive Verbs
 
Pelearse          Encorderse
" doer + done= the two are the same"
 
I wash my face.
     subject + object are the same (Reflexive)
I wash the car.
     (Non-reflexive)
 
raise the book - non-relexive
raise your arm - reflexive
put yourself to bed - reflexive
put the baby to bed - non-reflexive
wake up your son - non-reflexive
wake yourself up - reflexive
 
     cansar[se - to get tired
 
1.  move reflexive pronoun "se" to the front
     se consar
2.  make the pronoun agree with subject
yo - me               nosotros - nos
tú - te           
él/ella/Ud. - se     ellos/ellas/Uds. - se
 
"We're getting tired"          "They got tired"
     Nos consamos                 Se cansaron
                                                                
"They get tired"                "He get tired
     Se cansan                       Él se cansa
 
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