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Reflexive pronouns may be formed by | Reflexive pronouns may be formed by adding '''''zu''''' to any of the personal pronouns. In the first and second persons, it is suffixed, '''''-zu''''', but is only used emphatically to emphasise reflexivity and otherwise dropped. In the third person, the '''''zu''''' is a separate word and it is the important part of the phrase, with the '''''de''''' able to be dropped. | ||
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Quite frequently, '''''-zu''''' attaches as a compound element on to the end of other nouns in order to create a lexical reflexive. Compare the following three sentences. | Quite frequently, '''''-zu''''' attaches as a compound element on to the end of other nouns in order to create a lexical reflexive. This is quite like the English prefixes ''auto-'' and ''self-'', as in ''autoerotic'', ''self-destruct''. Compare the following three sentences. | ||
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