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Lesson 47 of 69 · A2, Unit 5: Grammar milestones

Reflexive verbs

Reflexive verbs take a pronoun that refers back to the subject: Ich wasche mich (I wash myself). Many German verbs are reflexive where English ones aren't: sich beeilen (to hurry), sich erinnern (to remember), sich setzen (to sit down).

The reflexive pronouns are the accusative ones, except er/sie/es/sie/Sie, which all use sich: mich, dich, sich, uns, euch, sich.

By the end you can:

  • conjugate reflexive verbs with the right pronoun
  • use common reflexive verbs from daily life
  • use the dative reflexive with body parts: Ich putze mir die Zähne

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