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LearnCraft Spanish

46: Reflexive pronouns and Irse

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9634 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Spanish reflexive pronouns are tricky, and they have many different uses! Let's learn how to use se, me, te, and nos, especially when they turn Ir ("to go") into Irse ("to leave").

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/46

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0:00.0

Don't go yourself yet. You'll want to hear this.

0:06.0

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:16.2

So far on this podcast, there's been a lot of emphasis on essential verbs and how to structure sentences

0:22.0

around them. This week, we aren't going to learn any new verbs. Instead, we're going to work

0:28.3

on more and more things we can do with the verbs we've learned. We'll also pick up a bunch more

0:34.1

vocabulary that we can use to put a lot more meaning into our sentences,

0:38.5

including more nouns, adverbs, and even some greetings. For today, we're going to focus on

0:45.2

pronouns and some very strange things you can do with iir. In fact, iir can be used in three distinct ways. We've already practiced using it to mean

0:59.3

to go, indicating that someone is going to a place. It can also be used to put verbs in the

1:06.5

future, which really has nothing to do with going somewhere at all. And it also has a third meaning

1:14.0

that we'll learn in this episode. But to do this, we have to learn a whole new set of pronouns

1:21.5

called reflexive pronouns. In this episode, we'll use a Memory Palace to learn these pronouns. If you aren't

1:30.1

interested in the Memory Palace story, you can skip to 445 in this episode. So let's go back to

1:37.6

the countryside. Imagine we've gone past the sheep pastures where we learned subject pronouns,

1:44.1

and now we're walking over

1:45.9

the direct object hill with the hymns. See if you can remember what people and what words are in

1:52.6

each place here. On the left we have La and Las. On the right we have lo and los. In front of you is te. And at the bottom where you're standing we have me and nos.

2:03.6

Okay, now we continue over the hill to we have me and nos.

2:22.8

Okay, now we continue over the hill to a fork in the road.

2:25.4

This is for our indirect objects.

2:27.7

See if you can remember what's here.

2:33.6

On the left we have Le and Les.

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