Reflexive Verbs: Chamo-me

Reflexive verbs describe something you do to yourself: chamar-se (to be called), levantar-se (to get up), sentar-se (to sit down). In an ordinary European Portuguese statement the pronoun comes after the verb, joined by a hyphen:

• eu → me: Chamo-me Rita. (My name is Rita.)
• tu → te: Levantas-te cedo. (You get up early.)
• ele, ela, você → se: Ela senta-se. (She sits down.)
• nós → nos: Deitamo-nos tarde. (We go to bed late.)
• eles, elas, vocês → se: Eles vestem-se. (They get dressed.)

With nós the verb drops its final -s before nos: levantamos → levantamo-nos. Some verbs keep a preposition: lembrar-se de, esquecer-se de, preocupar-se com.