Spanish · Chapter 4 · Lesson 4 · Grammar primer
Reflexive verbs
Prescribed by the AQA specification.
The short version
The reflexive pronoun is not optional
The pronoun is not decoration; the verb is incomplete without it. Levanto a las siete is broken, and it has to be me levanto a las siete. English is what causes the slip, because so many daily-routine verbs are reflexive in Spanish and not in English: llamarse, levantarse, ducharse, irse, quedarse.
¿A qué hora te levantas?
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