Reflexive pronoun
WordNet
noun
(1) A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A personal pronoun, having a form of "self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself.
- In some languages, a pronoun that makes a transitive verb reflexive or reciprocal.
- Spanish: Él se lavó — He washed (himself).
- Él lavó — He washed (something).
- Russian: — He washed (himself).
- — He washed (something).
- Spanish: Él se lavó — He washed (himself).
See also
- myself
- oneself
- ourself
- ourselves
- yourself
- yourselves
- himself
- herself
- itself
- themself
- themselves