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  • noun Plural form of reflexive.

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Examples

  • However, if we have to accept this chain of events, it implies that before the mediopassive was created, the perfective endings themselves had been used to mark reflexives in an earlier stage of pre-PIE.

    Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending 2007

  • However, if we have to accept this chain of events, it implies that before the mediopassive was created, the perfective endings themselves had been used to mark reflexives in an earlier stage of pre-PIE.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • :: I particularly like the reflexives that absolve the actor of responsibility: se me cayo, se me perdio, se me rompio, se me olvido.

    the Spanish language - distinctives 2002

  • I particularly like the reflexives that absolve the actor of responsibility: se me cayo, se me perdio, se me rompio, se me olvido.

    the Spanish language - distinctives 2002

  • :: I particularly like the reflexives that absolve the actor of responsibility: se me cayo, se me perdio, se me rompio, se me olvido.

    the Spanish language - distinctives 2002

  • : I particularly like the reflexives that absolve the actor of responsibility: se me cayo, se me perdio, se me rompio, se me olvido.

    the Spanish language - distinctives 2002

  • In the ensuing weeks we also had lessons on the kinds of topics you would expect: verb conjugations; verbos pleonasticos, the two past tenses; the difference between para and por; and ser and estar; reflexives, prepositions and a bunch of idioms, expressions, short cuts and other grammatical topics.

    Learning Spanish by immersion: Does it work? 1997

  • In the ensuing weeks we also had lessons on the kinds of topics you would expect: verb conjugations; verbos pleonasticos, the two past tenses; the difference between para and por; and ser and estar; reflexives, prepositions and a bunch of idioms, expressions, short cuts and other grammatical topics.

    Learning Spanish by immersion: Does it work? 1997

  • _I myself_ saw it: and (2) as reflexives, to turn the action of the verb back upon the actor; as, _He_ found _himself_ deserted by his friends.

    Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

  • _Être_ verbs: reflexives, passives, and some intransitives (mainly verbs of motion); see Lessons X, XI, XII.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

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