More practice with reflexives:

For a full description of reflexive verbs, please refer to reflexive verbs I.

Review: Reflexive verbs have the SAME subject as recipient. This means that the person who does the action also receives it. For example, look at the sentence "me lavo la cara", which translates " I wash (myself) the face". Since the person doing the action is the same one as the one receiving the action, then it is a reflexive verb. You could take the same verb LAVAR and use it non-reflexively such as I wash YOUR face, or even I wash the car. In these latter two examples, I is not the same as You or the car, so it is not used reflexively.

You can recognize an infinitive as reflexive by the way it ends-in a SE, for example BANARSE means to bathe oneself. Remember that not all reflexive verbs are things that you do to yourself. Some are emotional, involuntary, or imply direction. The best practice is to memorize verbs that end in SE as reflexives.

Formation: Reflexive verbs conjugate like any other but they require a pronoun in front: Me, Te, Se, Nos, Os and SE, thus Llamarse (to call oneself, i.e. to be named) conjugates in the present tense as follows:

Me llamo Nos llamamos
Te llamas Os llamáis
Se llama Se llaman


In the exercise that follows provide the missing parts of the conjugated reflexive verbs.