How to conjugate reflexive verbs in the present tense spanish
Spanish Reflexive Verbs v1.0
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hola let's learn about los verbos or
reflexive o's in english reflexive verbs
when you see a pencil that means there's
a place to take notes on the handout a
reflexive verb tells what one does to
oneself almost like a mirror reflecting
the action back onto the subject let's
use levar to show you what I mean
the verb levar means to wash but if we
use the word love our say that's a
reflexive verb that means to wash
oneself funfact reflexive verbs work in
all the verb tenses past future present
but we are going to be working with them
in the present tense even as a beginning
Spanish learner you already use one of
these phrases when someone asked you for
your name you typically will answer me
llamo that's a reflexive verb because
while you might translate that phrase as
my name is remember we want to think in
terms of ideas not words it really means
I call myself you're reflecting your
name back to yourself
so what happens if I take away the may
and just have llamo the meaning changes
from I call myself to just I call for
example llamo a mis amigos means I call
my friends while me llamo means I call
myself or my name is another example is
a blur to talk if I say I've look on mis
amigos I'm saying I talk with my friends
but if I say Mae hablo I'm really saying
I talked to myself now remember I have
the pronoun yo in parenthesis because
like all subject pronouns it's optional
how do we know that a verb is reflexive
there's a couple of ways if the verb is
in the infinitive hasn't been conjugated
yet you'll see us say on the end of it
hablar is not a reflexive verb but
hablar say is because of the same let's
look at the other reflexive
pronouns may means myself tay means
yourself say himself/herself yourself
itself knows our selves owes yourselves
but in spain and say theirselves or
yourselves let's look at some common
reflexive verbs in the infinitive form
levantarse to lift oneself or to get up
levar say to wash oneself say PR say to
brush oneself say car say to dry oneself
pani are say to bathe oneself Pienaar
say to comb oneself and of course you
can Marseille to call oneself now just a
few more but these are also
stem-changers and we'll have an extra
spelling step to them if you need a
review on stem-changers you can watch my
video called spanish stem-changing verbs
we have despertarse to wake oneself up
based DRC to dress oneself ecostar say
to put oneself to bed and daughter mir
say to go to sleep let's work with late
on Thursday
step one is to ignore the say and then
conjugate the infinitive according to
the pronoun ok let's see this in action
take off the say now keep in mind this
does change the meaning to be to lift
but we'll put the say back on in its
proper form so we drop to say and then
we conjugate it this gives us levantó
levantus levanta 11 Thomas 11 dice and
leave Anton but we're not done
step 2 is to add in the correct
reflexive object pronoun so if the verb
is in the yo form you'll use May and the
verb is in the to form you'd use teh
remember what happens when you make a
verb reflexive levanto means I raised me
in my hand
maybe well may levanto means I get up I
raise myself
let's look at the other forms may
levanto tell of anta's say levanta i
remember i said we didn't need to use
pronouns there are a few instances where
you will want to use a pronoun for
clarification for instance if I would
say say levanta you wouldn't know if I
met he gets up she gets up it gets up or
you formal get up to be polite
especially for the L a a who stayed and
the a Oh si si usted A's forms we often
use the pronouns to clarify who we mean
we would want to say yeah yeah say
levanta for she gets up and then the
last three we have no sleep on Tomas oz
lemon dice and say Lewontin
be careful if you're an English speaker
you'll eventually say something like say
Pio miss dientes your brain will tell
you that means I brush my teeth but keep
in mind while Spanish is similar to
English it often can't be translated
word-for-word it is a different language
and you should be thinking in terms of
ideas and not just words the correct way
to say I brush my teeth is Mesa Pio los
dientes but don't worry the more you
practice the easier it will get well
tato coyote let's start simple and then
we'll move on to sentences look at the
pronouns below and match them with the
correct reflexive object pronoun I did
mix them up a bit just to give you a
little bit of a challenge
remember to pause the video to give
yourself time to think or to review your
notes did you get se noce se may os--
and day if you did it you can always try
again and you can always pause to review
the notes let's try it with sentences
again pause the video to give yourself
time to think or to review
did you get me levanto nos pen ahmo's
say Seca Appel oh oh s--- CPAs los
dientes los perros nos a bunion and me
llamo muy bien hopefully you found this
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