reflexive pronoun

Reflexive pronouns are used when someone or something is both the subject and the object of the same verb—that is, both that which is performing the action of the verb and that which is receiving the action. When this happens, the reflexive verb is used as the object of the verb to represent the person or thing.

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Noun

reflexive pronoun - a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent

reflexive

personal pronoun - a pronoun expressing a distinction of person

Translations

Reflexivpronomen

pronome reflexivo

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Brajerski 1966, Lunt 2001, Krause & Slocum 2013), se is presented as a reflexive pronoun in the accusative case, a variant of sebe, which, in turn, is syncretic with the reflexive pronoun in the genitive case.

Old Church Slavonic as a language with the middle voice morphology

It's a reflexive pronoun that means 'me'" - Ally Houston.

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This unclear pronoun reference can be corrected by adding a reflexive pronoun (himself) or repeating the appropriate noun.

Chapter 26: Pronouns and point of view

"I won't -- don't need to condescend to that extent -- explain the errors involving the misuse use of the reflexive pronoun myself.

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The proposed gender-inclusive pronoun "herimself' is the reflexive case of the proposed objective pronoun "herim." "Herimself' would be used in substitution for "themself' when that plural reflexive pronoun is used to refer to only one person of unspecified sex.

What is "EET"? A proposal to add a series of referent-inclusive third person singular pronouns and possessive adjectives to the English language for use in legal drafting

The grammar police could loiter outside school gates waiting to admonish tearaways for abusing a reflexive pronoun with intent.

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(38) On the other hand, there are three cases of the Milanese reflexive pronoun "me" for 1st person singular.

Evidence for early Tuscanisation in the commercial letters of the Milanese merchant Giovannino Da Dugnano (?-1398) in the Datini archive in Prato

Gonzalvez Garcia focuses on constructional configurations such as I find myself incredulous/Me encuentro muy atractivo and James found himself a virtual prisoner /me encontre en el paro, withfind/encontrar followed by a reflexive pronoun and an obligatory object-related complement.

Christopher S. Butler and Javier Martin Arista, eds. 2009. Deconstructing Constructions

IT is well known that in Romanian and some forms of Sardinian, Dalmatian and Italo-Romance, the stressed oblique forms of the first and second person singular of the personal pronoun, and of the third person singular of the reflexive pronoun, have an augment syllable -ne.

A new look at an old problem: on the origin of the pronominal augment -ne

(5) For example, Japanese subjects preserve their ability to bind the reflexive pronoun zibun (Comrie 1985: 336); this is also the case in Kabardian (see 2.3 above):

Kabardian causatives, reflexives, and case marking domains/Kabardinski kauzativi, povratne konstrukcije i domene pripisivanja padeza