Originally posted by: TseDanylo on Duolingo Archived here
Вітаю!
Ukrainian is an East Slavic language spoken primarily in Western and Central Ukraine by 40 million people making it the third most spoken Slavic language by number of native speakers in the world!
If there are any terms you do not understand please refer to the grammar glossary
What is a Reflexive Verb?
Reflexive verbs are verbs which require doing an action onto yourself. For example; the verb to get dress (одягатися) involves doing an action onto yourself. However, some reflexive verbs just are reflexive and it's best to learn which are reflexive and which are not for example; намагатися, to try.
Example
All reflexive verbs have the -ся suffix added onto the -ти. To conjugate them; remove the -ти, but leave the -ся on the end. Here is намагатися conjugated in the present tense:
- Я намагаюся
- Ти намагаєшся
- Він/Вона/Воно намагається
- Ми намагаємося
- Ви намагаєтеся
- Вони намагаються