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Reflexively definition, (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. See more.
Reflexive verbs are roughly the equivalent of English verbs involving -self or -selves, such as he hurt himself, they weighed themselves, we prepared ourselves etc. In these verbs, the subject and object actually represent the same thing or person. In French, reflexive verbs have an extra object pronoun inserted between the subject and the verb. In this case, some grammars call this the reflexive pronoun. Depending on the subject (je, tu etc), the reflexive pronoun is as shown in the following table: