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Definition of Reflexive verb
1. Noun. A verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent. "`perjure' is a reflexive verb because you cannot perjure anyone but yourself"
Definition of Reflexive verb
1. Noun. A verb whose subject and direct object are the same. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reflexive Verb
Literary usage of Reflexive verb
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spanish Verb: With an Introduction on Spanish Pronunciation by Peter Edward Traub, Edward Edgar Wood (1900)
"In this case the subject of the passive verb is made the object of the reflexive
verb, and we have se mato al hombre. This can be explained or translated ..."
2. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"The reason that a perfect participle here can thus be used as an adjective is
that the reflexive verb in German often has the force of an in- gressive ..."
3. The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly (1870)
"... from a general rule " that a reflexive verb is often related to the simple
verb as a corresponding intransitive to a transitive, as freuen,3 to give 1 ..."
4. A Compendious German Grammar by William Dwight Whitney (1869)
"A reflexive verb is thus often related to the simple verb as a ... The construction
of a reflexive verb with the genitive is notably easier than of the same ..."
5. The Spanish Verb: With an Introduction on Spanish Pronunciation by Peter Edward Traub, Edward Edgar Wood (1900)
"79 Conjugation of the (Accusative) reflexive verb Lavarse ... 80 Negative and
Interrogative ... 84 Conjugation of the Permanent reflexive verb Alegrarse . ..."
6. The French Verb: Its Conjugation and Idiomatic Use by Charles Fletcher Martin (1910)
"THE reflexive verb A reflexive verb in French, like a reflexive verb in English,
... Consequently a reflexive verb is always accompanied by an objective ..."
7. The French Verb: Its Conjugation and Idiomatic Use by Charles Fletcher Martin (1910)
"THE reflexive verb A reflexive verb in French, like a reflexive verb in English,
... Consequently a reflexive verb is always accompanied by an objective ..."
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