Learn Spanish for beginners: Illustrated step by step guide for complete beginners to understand Spanish language from scratch by White Belt Mastery

Learn Spanish for beginners: Illustrated step by step guide for complete beginners to understand Spanish language from scratch by White Belt Mastery

Author:White Belt Mastery [Mastery, White Belt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-27T16:00:00+00:00


Part V: Reflexive Verbs

A reflexive verb can explain that an action is affecting “you” but it is not the case in most of the situations in Spanish.

Instead, a reflexive verb in Spanish goes beyond the uses it has in English and can or have to be used in actions that won’t be translated as something you do to “yourself”

Check these examples:

➢ “I eat sandwich” / “Yo me como un sándwich”

➢ “You go to Madrid” / “Tú te vas a Madrid”

➢ We wake up at 7:00” / “Nosotros nos levantamos a las 7:00”

In those examples you can observe that the verb in English is translated differently in Spanish, there’s another word which is called “reflexive pronoun” and when it goes with a verb, they form a “reflexive verb” which is Spanish, most of the time is an intransitive verb and the reflexive pronoun is used to make emphasis of the action, to change the target of the verb, or to explain that its result is affecting the person or thing who doing the action.

To complete this idea, even when you find yourself in a situation in English in which you would like or need to use a translation for “by myself”, they don’t need to use a reflexive pronoun. Instead, it could or has to be a different word.

Read this conversation to have some examples:

Conversation 1: Casual Conversation

Context: two young people talk about where do they live. One of them lives by himself.



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