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[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

Question about reflexive verbs:

I know that verbs that are pretty much always reflexive will end in sya (I can't use Cyrillic on this comp, I'm not at home). I was wondering what you do with verbs that aren't reflexive in nature. For example, "to teach". In English, you would say "I teach you" or "I teach him". Verbs in English can easily be reflexive by just saying "I teach myself" instead of "I teach me".

So, in Russian, would you say "I teach me" (menya) or is there another word for "myself" in this situation? Best I can think of, it would either be "menya" or "cebya". Would both of them work, or just one of the two, or neither at all? Menya sounds a little funny, but hey... Russian is a funny language sometimes ^_~

ETA: When would you use "cama"? (sama... my attempt at using Latin letters instead of cyrillic, but hey, these are all pretty much the same lol)

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[kapterev.livejournal.com]

As far as your "sama" is concerned, you can use it as a prefix "само". For instance, there is a Russian word "самоучитель", which means teach-yourself book. You can also say "самообучение" referring to the process of teaching yourself, it is understandable although not all that common.