Home -- Contact -- Site Map

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Reflexive Spanish Verbs

So hey yeah, "all Spanish verbs end in either: '-ar', '-ir',- or '-er'!". You remember hearing something similar to that? I know I've heard something similar to that. However that, like most everything else people say, is not entirely true; either by design or not.

Enter: Reflexive Verbs
Don't like reading ?

How about disco?

What?:
1. A reflexive verb has the same performer and target, it's what you do to yourself.

2. "A verb is reflexive when the subject and the object are the same."

3 Reflexive verbs indicate that the subject of the sentence has performed an action on itself.

4 Reflexive verbs usually have to do with parts of the body, clothing, or one's state of mind.

aburrirse - to become bored
ducharse - to take a shower
ponerse - to put on (clothes)

Oh, look....It seems that reflexive verbs all end in "-se" and before the "se" an "-er", "-ir", or "-ar" may be found. while this may or may not always be true it seems to be overwhelmingly true from what I've seen.

So....How do we do reflexive verbs?

On this I'm still a bit fuzzy....But here are my thoughts on the matter

The Spanish reflexive verb can be divided into 4 parts

the subject pronoun + root + normal ending + reflexive ending

tú + aburr + ir + se

To conjugate it we must know what the reflexive pronouns are, these correspond to the subject pronouns generally introduced early on.





Reflexive
Me (myself)
te (yourself)
se (himself, herself)  
nos/vos (ourselves)
os (yourselves)
Subject/personal
Yo (I)
tú (you)
él (he)/ella (she)
nosotros/Vosotros (we)
ellos (they)/ellas (they)

1. So in our example of "tú aburrirse" we know we're using "yourself" or "you".

2. After this is known we drop the se(reflexive ending) at the end to get "tú aburrir".

3. Then we conjugate aburrir to it's "tú" form to get "tu aburres".

4. Then we turn the "tú" into it's reflexive counterpart "te" to get "te aburres".

You do the rest, I'm tired.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Disclaimer: Am I right? Am I wrong? I have no idea! Perhaps Everything I've said above is one hundred percent wrong? With those thoughts in mind you should get a second opinion before using what I've said.

 
::Site Map::.....
    ♥Multi-Media
  • Photography
    • Sceanery
    • Commisioned
    • Wildlife
    • Miscellaneous
  • Graphics
    • 3D still renders
    • 'Shopped
    • WallPapers
    • Miscellaneous
  • Videos
    • 3D animetions
    • In r/l
    • pro-ductions
    • Miscellaneous
  • Audio
    • Sound Bites
    • Dope beats
    • Miscellaneous
    ♥Projects
  • Web
    • Jinkaku.net
    • This site
    Desktop
    • None now
    ♥About
  • Me
    • Education
    • Work EXP.
  • The Site
    • Design
    • Statistics
    ♥Language
  • Japanese
    • Phrases
    • Tips 'n tricks
    • vocabulary
  • Spanish
    • Phrases
    • Tips 'n tricks
    • vocabulary
  • Korean
    • Phrases
    • Tips 'n tricks
    • vocabulary
    ♥Miscellaneous
  • Links
    • Educational
    • Humor
    • cohorts
  • Badges