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reflexive verb

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Noun1.reflexive verb - a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent; "the sentence `he washed' has a reflexive verb"; "`perjure' is a reflexive verb because you cannot perjure anyone but yourself"
verb - a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence


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Posti writes that in some Ingrian dialects in the 3P present the personal endings in reflexive verbs differ from those in other verbs, e.
For example, the students review reflexive verbs after reading a page that contains seven examples of reflexive verbs in one paragraph.
Ordinarily this activity is concerned with the support of another, although it is capable of being made a reflexive verb, as in the concept of 'self-care'; and 3.
 
 
 
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