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May 15, 2013 - 10:13 AM
Sylvia- I wish I had a black and white answer for you :( This is one of those things that will take some time and patience, but suddenly you have this AHA! moment, and things start to click. Take it one word at a time. Descansar is particular in that as Robert says, it already incorporates the action and subject without having to add the pronoun. It doesn't translate like English exactly as in you would not "rest/descansar" something else. So for example with washing, I can wash my own teeth, she washes her own teeth (those are reflexive)-- and I can wash clothes- or I can wash her teeth (as in I do the action on her). With descansar, you can't do that... I can't rest her... It basically already is reflexive in nature- I hope that helps :)