Reflexive pronoun
WordNet

noun


(1)   A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
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Noun


  1. A personal pronoun, having a form of "self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself.
  2. 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).

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