Back Verbu reflexivu AST Verb reflexiu Catalan Zvratné sloveso Czech Reflexives Verb German Verbo reflexivo Spanish Aditz bihurkari Basque Briathar aisfhillteach Irish Verbo riflessivo Italian Wederkerend werkwoord Dutch Czasownik zwrotny Polish
In grammar, a reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, "I wash myself". More generally, a reflexive verb has the same semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the subject and the direct object). For example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself. In a wider sense, the term refers to any verb form whose grammatical object is a reflexive pronoun, regardless of semantics; such verbs are also more broadly referred to as pronominal verbs, especially in the grammar of the Romance languages. Other kinds of pronominal verbs are reciprocal (they killed each other), passive (it is told), subjective, and idiomatic. The presence of the reflexive pronoun changes the meaning of a verb, e.g., Spanish abonar to pay, abonarse to subscribe.[1]
There are languages that have explicit morphology or syntax to transform a verb into a reflexive form. In many languages, reflexive constructions are rendered by transitive verbs followed by a reflexive pronoun, as in English -self (e.g., "She threw herself to the floor.") English employs reflexive derivation in idiosyncratically, as in "self-destruct".
- ^ https://www.lawlessspanish.com/grammar/verbs/idiomatic-pronominal-verbs/ Idiomatic pronominal verbs in Spanish.
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