Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Macedonian Reflexive Verbs/reply (5)

You can compare Dutch, which is also always reflexive. The only meaning given on the page is tagged as reflexive. In Dutch, reflexive verbs are similar to those in Macedonian, and have an added reflexive pronoun. But word order in Dutch is rather complex and the pronoun does not always directly precede the verb, it can sometimes follow it and sometimes there are even words between the pronoun and the verb.

If a verb can have both reflexive and non-reflexive uses, then there are really two choices we can make. Either we make a separate entry for the reflexive verb, although this may not always make sense. Or we put them both on the same entry and label one of the senses (reflexive). The problem with the second approach is that it's less consistent if we don't also put verbs that are always reflexive on the non-reflexive entry name. I don't know any Macedonian reflexive verbs so I can't give examples to explain what I mean better.