Actions that you do to yourself like washing (sich waschen).
Separable verb example:
sich wohlfühlen - to feel at ease
Ich fühle mich hier wohl - I feel at ease here.
Reflexive pronouns are similar to (but different for 3rd person singular and plural) the accusative personal pronouns.
When another direct object is involved, such as 'hands' or 'face', German uses dative forms of the reflexive pronouns: mir, dir, sich, uns, euch and sich.
For example, 'Ich wasche mir die Hände' - 'I wash the hands to myself.' Notice it's only mich and dich which change (to mir and dir).
The imperative is made in the same way as for other verbs but you keep dich, euch and sich:
Setz dich,
Setzt euch,
Setzen Sie sich.
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