6o A SPANISH REFERENCE GRAMMAR

there any water? Yes, there is; habra libros ? Los habri, will there be any books? Yes there will be (some). See 369. 278.

4. Reflexive forms. Reflexive pronouns are direct or indirect; the former are more common. 279.

1.  The same rules that govern the position of other object pronouns apply to the reflexive forms. See 250-260, 286. 280.

2.  Direct reflexives are the only objects of the verb and are identical in person and number with the subject, that is, the action of the subject, expressed by the verb, is reflected back upon that subject: me lavo,

I wash myself. See 380. 281.

3. Indirect reflexives are the secondary objects of the action of the subject reflected back upon itself: me lavo las manos, I wash my hands. Here las manos is the direct object and me is the indirect object. See also 269, 381. 282.

4.  The indirect reflexive is frequent instead of a corresponding possessive adjective, commonly used in English, when referring to the person: me lavo las manos; nos ponemos el sombrero, we put on our hats. Note that the noun object in such cases is singular or plural according to its number when possessed by one person. See also 269. 283.

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5. For emphasis reflexives are accompanied by mismo or propio, me vi a mi mismo, I saw myself; se vieron a si mismos, they saw themselves; lo hizo por si propio, he did it by himself. 284.

6. It must be noted that reflexive se is an entirely different word from the se that replaces le or les (see 263, 264), as in se lo doy, I give it to him. 285.

7.  An exception to the usual position of the indirect before the direct object is found in the case of direct reflexive verbs which have also an indirect object pronoun, when the direct object se then precedes: se me present6, he appeared before me, presented himself to me. See also 270, 380. 286. For reflexive se in exhortations and imperatives, see 386, 387.

5. Prepositional forms (pronombres terminates).

1.  These pronouns are used only after prepositions. They are called also terminal or disjunctive (being disjoined from the verb): para 61, for him; despues de Vd., after you. 287.

2.  They are identical with the subject pronouns except in the 1st and znd persons singular — mi and ti — and in the reflexive form, si : contra ti, against thee; para si, for himself. See 238. 288.