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• 1 2018-07-24T14:45:23-07:00 11.1. Reflexive 10 plain 2022-02-04T09:06:46-08:00 Grammatical patterns that express the idea of one person acting on him- or herself are called reflexive sentences. In English we have reflexive pronouns: myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves.
  
  In Klallam there are no reflexive pronouns. There are actually several ways of getting the idea of ‘self’ in Klallam. This section introduces one way:  a special suffix that goes on the end of a transitive verb.
  

  kʷənáŋəct cn.	‘I help myself.’
  kʷənáŋəct st.	‘We help ourselves.’
  kʷənáŋəct cxʷ.	‘You help yourself.’
  kʷənáŋəct cxʷ hay.	‘You folks help yourselves.’
  kʷənáŋəct.	‘He/she/they help/s himself/herself/themselves.’

  
  ► 1  The form of the reflexive suffix is ‑ct and sometimes ‑cút. The difference between these two variations is covered in §46.
  ► 2  Note that, with the reflexive suffix, the he/she/they form has an understood subject, just as an intransitive verb.
  ► 3  The ‑ct/‑cút suffix is not nearly as common as ‘self’ is in English. It occurs with the meaning ‘self’ only on stems with a transitive meaning. Other uses of this suffix are covered in §46.
  ► 4  A more common way of expressing the idea of ‘self’ uses the ‘middle voice’ pattern. This is covered in detail in §44.
  

  	k̓ʷəncút či.	‘Look at yourself!’
  	ʔáwənə nəsxʷk̓ʷak̓ʷən̓úsəŋ.	‘I don’t have a mirror.’
  	ɬíc̓ct cxʷ.	‘You cut yourself.’
  	ʔáˑˑčənaʔ!	‘My goodness!’