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Question: How do you conjugate in German and English two reflexive verbs such as, sich + vorstellen? |
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Answer: Conjugating Reflexive German Verbs To fully conjugate a verb in any
language you need to be aware of all the possible persons who
could be doing the action of the verb. In English they are I,
you, he, she, one, it, we, and they. There are more possibilities in German, especially when using 'you'!! With regard to the verb sich vorstellen,
which in English translates as 'to introduce oneself', you need
to also use a reflexive pronoun. A reflexive verb is an action
one does to oneself. Other examples might be (in English) to
wash oneself, to dress oneself, to look at oneself in the mirror. Remember that unless you are actually
starting a sentence with these, only the last but one (polite
'you') would have a capital; the others, including 'I' all use
lower case letters in German. If you were conjugating a verb
such as 'sich waschen', which means 'to wash oneself', you wouldn't
have the additional problem of the prefix. Do beware, though,
that many German reflexive verbs use prefixes such as 'an', 'aus',
'um', 'ein', and 'ab'. If in doubt, check in a bilingual dictionary
that will tell you. The abbreviation vr means reflexive verb
and sep means a separable prefix. Complicated stuff! |
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