Spanish Reflexive Verbs

Spanish reflexive verbs are just verbs that happen to myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, and themselves. 

Basically, any time you say one of these -self words, you'll make the Spanish verb reflexive -- it reflects the action to itself.

How about an example?

How do you say I shave (afeitarse) my beard (la barba)?

Me afeito la barba.

First you conjugate the verb, if you need a review go to Spanish verb conjugation. 

All infinitive form reflexive verbs will end in -se. This suffix means 'itself'. But in this case I am shaving my beard and doing it to myself so I need to change the suffix to me meaning 'myself'. Then after changing it I put it in front of the conjugated verb.

Here are the reflexive suffixes:

So basically, you just need to conjugate the verb and place the reflexive pronoun in front of it.

Now that you know how, try this example....

How would you say, They know (conocerse) each other?

Ellos se conocen.

Think you got the reflexive pronouns down? Try out the mini-quiz.

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