Italian Course Beginner Series 53: REFLEXIVE pronouns.. Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello my name is Claudio and this is
another Italian tutorial today we
covered the reflexive pronouns and I
want you to know that if you've made it
up to this point you're very much likely
to learn how to speak Italian fluently
because this is quite an advanced topic
from now on we're going to begin to
tackle a series of very difficult topics
why are they difficult when they are not
difficult by themselves but we're going
to do something that you are not used to
in English meaning we are going to
encounter little particles called
pronouns and we are going to encounter
very different types of pronouns that
look very similar so chances are you
gonna get confused that's the reason why
I decided to make a short video just
talking about the reflexive pronouns in
your notebook you should have a table
with all the different types of pronouns
why because they all look very similar
and it's very easy to get confused I'm
not talking about beginners and I'm not
talking about intermediate speakers I'm
talking about plenty of people who are
teaching this stuff even on YouTube and
they teach it wrong because it's very
confusing now there are many types of
pronouns and the easy way out the only
way to learn them well and make sure
that we have everything crystal clear is
to learn them slowly the point I'm
trying to make here is the same that I
was making when I talked about the acute
accent and the apostrophe even if you
have an American keyboard and you can't
make the apostrophe and the acute accent
look different that doesn't matter the
important thing is that you know the
difference and you know which one is
which when you see them written because
of what they do and how they appear
throughout a sentence the same is worth
for reflexive pronouns for indirect
object pronouns for object pronouns
subject pronouns object contracted
pronouns and complex pronouns that we
are going to have a look at in the next
video
now we've already seen subject pronouns
and object pronouns okay
meaning I you he she it cetera and then
me you him her etc we've seen the
personal pronouns already today we do
the reflexive pronouns which are
slightly different and I'm going to show
you in a moment how to use them let's
assume that we want to say I wash in
Italian I wash now what you do in
Italian is you say I wash myself and
this particle myself goes between the
subject and the verb so basically it
precedes the verb although it's the
object and you would expect it to be
after the verb like I love you you
expect the object to be after the verb
it goes before the verb the verb to wash
is levare therefore we know that it's an
air-tight verb so i wash so conjugated
in the present tense first person
singular you should you should be Laveau
if you don't know why go and have a look
at the present simple we have a video
covering all the conjugations for all
three different types of verbs in
italian labo so one might think well yo
lava no this is an example of reflexive
form meaning you need an object in front
that is the same as the subject and how
do you achieve that do you say myself do
you add myself after the verb no you use
one of these reflexive pronouns and you
put it in between the subject and the
verb so in this case we have the first
person singular eyewash therefore we
need me in front
so now the sentence is complete the
meaning is I wash or we've written a in
a slightly more roundabout way which is
the way that every Italian native
speaker wants to hear yo me lava I wash
and as we've said plenty of times we get
rid of the subject because that's always
emitted we always omit the subject in
Italian so me lava this means I wash now
in the next video we will cover the
reflexive form therefore we're going to
see how they are really used we're gonna
have a look at more examples for now I
just want you to learn these pronouns
this list and I also wanted to introduce
you to the idea of the reflexive form so
don't worry if you're confused because
I'm gonna clear things up in the next
video