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Definition of Reflexive pronoun

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

Definition of Reflexive pronoun

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

2. Noun. In some languages, a pronoun that makes a transitive verb reflexive or reciprocal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reflexive Pronoun

Literary usage of Reflexive pronoun

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1891)
"The reflexive pronoun. 253.] The Pronoun Io (ie the Personal Pronoun declined from the Stems it- or i- and CT«|>Í-) is sometimes Reflexive (ie denotes the ..."

2. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"In we see ourselves the reflexive pronoun stands in the direct object-relation to the verb see, and refers us back to we, which is the subject of the verb, ..."

3. A grammar of the Greek language, chiefly from the Germ. of R. Kühner by William Edward Jelf, Raphael Kühner (1861)
"The nominative is wanting, as a reflexive pronoun properly signifies only the ... The reflexive pronoun of the third person has a neuter and a plural, ..."

4. A Grammar of Attic and Ionic Greek by Frank Cole Babbitt (1902)
"A reflexive pronoun regularly refers to the most important word in the ... In dependent clauses a reflexive pronoun may sometimes refer back to the subject ..."

5. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Chiefly from the German of Raphael Kühner by William Edward Jelf (1842)
"Person for that of I. ami II. Person. §. (ш-4. I. a. Tlie simple reflexive pronoun of III. for I. and II. Pers. only Epic ; as, II. к, ..."

6. A Greek Grammar, for Schools and Colleges by James Hadley (1871)
"The reflexive pronoun of the third person is sometimes used for that of the first and ... The reflexive pronoun, in the plural forms, is often used for the ..."

7. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"THE reflexive pronoun ' SELF.' The Dravidian pronouns of the third person are, properly speaking, demonstratives, not personal pronouns; and they will, ..."

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