Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Proto-Slavic/reply (4)

No, it doesn't decline. In East Slavic languages it's fully clitic and is never separated - "я моюсь" - I wash myself ("-сь" is used after vowels in Russian only). In West and South it's separate and can change positions - e.g. "ja się myję". The particles are considered part of the word, esp. in East Slavic. To use "oneself" as a full word, as in your example, the full form is used, which is declinable, see a Russian example:.


 * "she can see herself in the mirror" - она́ ви́дит себя́ в зе́ркале (ru), widzi siebie w lustrze (pl), вона́ ба́чить себе́ в дзе́ркалі (uk)