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Example sentences for "reflexive"

Lexicographically close words:
reflex; reflexed; reflexes; reflexion; reflexions; reflexively; reflexly; refluent; reflux; refolded
  1. The intransitive uses come from the dropping out of the reflexive pronoun.

  2. To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; Ð used with the reflexive pronoun.

  3. The compound personal pronouns should generally be confined to their emphatic and reflexive use.

  4. The grammarian Olmos explains the reflexive verb mopopoyauhtiuh to signify "he leaves an honored memory of his exploits.

  5. This particle is joined to the reflexive verbs, and signifies what the root points out.

  6. This particle is placed before roots of reflexive verbs, and it is the most proper to express reciprocalness.

  7. A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one.

  8. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

  9. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

  10. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.

  11. To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.

  12. To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.

  13. To arrauge or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

  14. To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun.

  15. For our purposes, therefore, it will be convenient to ignore the bare possibility that there may be non-inductive non-reflexive numbers, since all known numbers are either inductive or reflexive.

  16. The reflexive numbers, which lie beyond all those attainable in this way, are as a matter of fact not increased by the addition of 1.

  17. It follows at once that any finite number can be added to a reflexive number without increasing it.

  18. It is known that all reflexive numbers are non-inductive, but it is not known that all non-inductive numbers are reflexive.

  19. Alteration to hine would give a common reflexive use, rejoices; comp.

  20. When ipse is joined to a possessive pronoun in a reflexive clause, it takes the case of the subject of the clause.

  21. It is a reflexive pronoun, the objective gen.

  22. So in Greek, the reflexive pronoun is often used for the reciprocal.

  23. That we do not excrete during sleep depends on the fact that the faeces pressing in the large intestine generates a reflexive action of the constrictors of the rectum.

  24. If I do not conclude that the cold weather is the condition both of the need of over-coats and the utility of skates, I will suppose that there is some unintelligible reflexive relation between over-coats and skates.

  25. Most women who succeed in normally masculine fields have a reflexive antipathy there; they have been hit on the head with it so much.

  26. But it's not just a reflexive process like a couple of rabbits that happen to meet under the same bush.

  27. Note that this verb requires the reflexive construction in Spanish.

  28. When a reflexive gerund expresses an additional detail or circumstance it is best translated by the passive form in English.

  29. The impersonal, reflexive =se= is here used in an indefinite or general sense, meaning they, people.

  30. Note that the third person, singular or plural, of the reflexive is employed.

  31. The reflexive pronoun =se= is the real object of the verb.

  32. Note the use of the reflexive particle with the gerund.

  33. Note the introduction of the reflexive pronoun to imply that the curiosity was aroused by what had been previously said.

  34. When used with a reflexive pronoun as, “Behave yourself,” this word is correctly applied.

  35. The Indirect Reflexive is mainly restricted to those clauses which express the thought, not of the author, but of the subject of the principal clause.

  36. Cum is appended to the Pronouns of the First and Second Persons, and to the Reflexive Pronoun; usually also to the Relative and Interrogative.

  37. The Reflexive Pronoun sē and the Possessive Reflexive suus have a double use:-- I.

  38. The Reflexive of the Third Person serves for all genders and for both numbers.

  39. The pronouns in "-self" are properly used only for emphasis or in a reflexive sense.

  40. I E sa reflexive and emphatic; Min she, the same.

  41. I E sawa genitive of sa, ta reflexive possessive for all persons; Dak tawa the same, also ta.

  42. A S ni negative; Dak ni prefix in nicha none and base of negative words in shni not combined with reflexive sa.

  43. Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.

  44. Poetically, him is sometimes used with the reflexive sense of himself.

  45. What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word" South.

  46. Some verbs which appear at first sight to be intransitive are in reality, or were originally, transitive verbs with a reflexive or other object omitted; as, he keeps (i.

  47. Defn: A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one.

  48. A reflexive pronoun sometimes refers to a substantive in the objective case: as,--“Our captors left us to ourselves.

  49. In this use they are called reflexive pronouns.

  50. The only exception is in reflexive action, where the object is a compound personal pronoun (“Charles deceived himself”).

  51. Chingni, reflexive of ingni, doublet of ingnèk; the verb also means "to sit.

  52. The reflexive pronoun or particle in Mikir, che (see p.

  53. Frequently the objective case of the simple personal pronoun is used with a reflexive meaning, especially in Sc.

  54. There is no special reflexive form for the pronouns of the 1st and 2nd person, I, we, and you.

  55. Reflexive verbs show the action of the subject on itself.

  56. It is worse to use the reflexive form when it should not be used, than to omit it when it might be used.

  57. He points out that where the use of the normal form could cause no possible ambiguity, the use of the reflexive form, though always advisable if justified by rule, is nevertheless not obligatory.

  58. Si = self, selves, oneself, is a reflexive pronoun of the 3rd person, singular or plural.

  59. Si is a reflexive pronoun of the 3rd person, and therefore cannot refer to the pronouns of the 1st and 2nd persons.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reflexive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    active; automatic; blind; casual; compulsive; conditioned; forced; gut; impulsive; inadvertent; instinctive; involuntary; mechanical; middle; passive; reactionary; reflex; reflexive; refluent; respondent; responsive; retroactive; revulsive; snap; spontaneous; unadvised; uncalculated; unconscious; unconsidered; undesigned; unintentional; unpremeditated; unstudied; unthinking; unwilling; unwitting; voice