ABSTRACT
The English term ‘reflexive verb’ denotes a verb that is accompanied by a pronoun object referring back to the subject, i.e. the subject and the object of the verb are the same. In English, this type of verb is only used when the subject does something to himself/herself (e.g. I cut myself, they blamed themselves, etc.), whereas, in Portuguese, verbs that are reflexive in form have a number of different meaning patterns, of which the truly reflexive usage is just one.
