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¡Hola! Welcome! Today we will learn how to talk about our daily routines in Spanish using special action words.
In Spanish, we use reflexive verbs when the person doing the action also receives the action. For example, when you wash yourself, the action loops right back to you.
To show that an action loops back, we use a small word called a reflexive pronoun. For 'I' (yo), we use the pronoun 'me' (meh) before the verb, like in 'me lavo' (I wash myself).
Let us compare a reflexive verb with a non-reflexive verb. 'Lavo el carro' (I wash the car) is not reflexive because you are washing an object, but 'me lavo' (I wash myself) is reflexive because the action stays with you.
Change the basic verb 'despertar' (to wake up) into a complete Spanish sentence that means 'I wake up at 7:00 AM.'
- Identify the subject. The English sentence starts with 'I', which is 'yo' in Spanish.
- Find the matching reflexive pronoun for 'yo'. The pronoun is 'me' (meh).
- Conjugate the verb 'despertar' (to wake up) for the 'yo' form. It is a stem-changing verb, so 'despertar' becomes 'despierto'.
- Put the pronoun right before the verb. This gives us 'me despierto' (I wake up).
- Add the time. 'At 7:00 AM' translates to 'a las siete' (ah lahs see-EH-teh).
- Combine everything to make your final sentence: 'Yo me despierto a las siete' (I wake up at seven).
