Thread: Reflexive / себя

eisenherz,

Es ist nur eine Regel. Hier gibt es keine eindeutige Erklärung. Man muss einfach "себя" verwenden.

It's about the subject. Kinda.

DU fühlst DICH schlecht. - (ты) чувствуешь себя плохо
DU erzählst über DICH. - (ты) рассказываешь о себе

It's easier if you learn the concept of СВОЙ/МОЙ etc. first (as has been highlighted by iCake above)- СЕБЯ then becomes obvious. Right, it's about expressing possessions, but in some way, it's related to the concept of how to express things that are related to the main person/subject.

It's interesting because my instinct when speaking French is to say "Je se sens bien", but it's wrong.

Originally Posted by John_Douglas

It's interesting because my instinct when speaking French is to say "Je se sens bien", but it's wrong.

Which makes it opposite to what Eisenherz wrote
What actually matters is what language you learned first, I think.

But people who learned multiple languages stop surprising and learn to accept each grammar as it is.

Originally Posted by Боб Уайтман

But people who learned multiple languages stop surprising and learn to accept each grammar as it is.

I didn't learn multiple languages, the only second language for me is English and I still learn it. But the first thing I understood is that you do well not to compare your native language with the language you try to learn (it's especially crucial not to do that with words, because almost every word in any language has a lot of uses and the translated word has its own different uses in the language it belongs to ), because it's pointless and more than that it's harmful, because that causes you to make constant mistakes or to come up with "lame" expressions as a result that you first think in your native language, then you render the thought into your second language. So one doesn't need to be a genius to infer that this attitude is a dead end.