Re: Reflexive (was Re: Help on Verbs...)

I would bet you're absolutely right.  The Baltic & Slavic languages simply stuck
it at the end instead of the beginning of the verb.  they all have the s- root,
including French.

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:

> That's probably a clitic pronoun - like in French (am I right,
> Mathias?). My Church Slavonic is a lot better than my Russian, and it
> has a verbal suffix -sja for reflexive and mediopassive:
> _krestistejsa_ "you (pl) have been baptized", _radujsja_ "rejoice"
> (imperative singular). It is in effect a reduced form of _sebja_, the
> object form of _sebe_ "himself, oneself".
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