Verbos Reflexivos

Download Report

Transcript Verbos Reflexivos

Verbos Reflexivos

What question do you ask a person to find
out their name?
– ¿Cómo te llamas?

To say “my name is…”
– Me llamo…

Comes from verb llamarse; roughly
translates as “to call oneself”
Comes from llamarse
Me llamo = I call myself
Te llamas = You call yourself
Se llama = He/She calls himself/herself
Nos llamamos = We call ourselves
Os llamáis* = You all call youselves
Ustedes se llaman = You all call yourselves
Se llaman = They call themselves
Verbs that say “oneself” (the person does the
action to him/herself) are called a reflexive verb.
Definition/Meaning
Reflexive verbs - the person doing the
verb is also the object of the verb; in
other words, the person is performing the
action on himself/herself
– I bathe myself.
– He dries himself.
– We put ourselves to bed.
How to conjugate
Three easy steps:
1. Move the reflexive pronoun to before
the infinitive.
bañarse → se bañar
2. Conjugate the verb like normal.
se bañar → se baño (yo)
3. Modify the pronoun to match the verb.
se baño → me baño
Me baño.
I take a bath.
¡Pronombres Reflexivos!
me - “myself”
nos - “ourselves”
te - “yourself”
os* - “yourselves”
se – “yourself”
se** - “yourselves”
se - “himself”, “herself”
se - “themselves”
*en España
**en Latinoamérica