Reflexive Pronoun Flashcards
Third person reflexive
–, se, sui, sibi, se
For singular and plural
I see myself
Me video
Reflexive
He sees me
Me videt
Not reflexive
You see yourself
Te vides
Reflexive
He sees you
Te videt
Not reflexive
Se videt
He/she/it sees himself/herself/itself
Se vident
They see themselves
He sees him(another person)
Eum videt
He sees himself
Se videt
He sees them
Eos videt
They see themselves
Se vident
He sees me
Me videt
I see myself
Me video
What are they
A pronoun that refers to the subject of its own clause (so doesn’t have a nominative case)
If the pronoun is the same person or thing as the subject then it is reflexive (if they are different it is not reflexive)
Direct reflexives
Reflexives that refer to the subject of the verb of their own clause
Indirect reflexives
In Subjunctive clauses/indirect statements the reflexive refers to the subject if the main clause and not to that of the clause in which it appears
Dux legatum mittit qui sibi multam pecuniam paret
The leader sends a legate in order that he may get much money for himself
(Indirect reflexive)
Vir rogavit quam ob rem iste adulescens ad se venisset
The man asked why that young man of yours had come to him
He says that those angry men want to kill themselves
Dicit illos iratos se ipsos interficere velle
Indirect reflexive
