📖LearnModule 4 · Lesson 6 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, completedUnit 2 · Los verbos reflexivos — the reflexive day
Me levanto — waking up reflexive
Module 4 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2, completed), lesson 6 of 30: When the action points back at yourself, Spanish says so: levantarse (to get up). On this page: 7 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
levantarse
to get up
leh-bahn-TAR-seh
yo me levanto
I get up
yoh meh leh-BAHN-toh
tú te levantas
you get up
too teh leh-BAHN-tahs
él se levanta
he gets up
ehl seh leh-BAHN-tah
nosotros nos levantamos
we get up
noh-SOH-trohs nohs leh-bahn-TAH-mohs
yo me levanto a las siete
I get up at seven
yoh meh leh-BAHN-toh ah lahs SYEH-teh
el despertador
the alarm clock
ehl dehs-pehr-tah-DOHR
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
When the action points back at yourself, Spanish says so: levantarse (to get up) — me levanto, te levantas, se levanta, nos levantamos, se levantan. The little me / te / se is part of the verb and goes in front of it.
Y también · And also
Me levanto a las siete — I get up at seven. The dictionary form carries the -se on its end: levantarse. The reflexive day starts here.
Ojo · Watch out
The pronoun matches the person: me levanto, te levantas, se levanta. Nosotros takes nos: nos levantamos — not nosotros se levantamos.
levantarse, presente — the table
yo me levanto · tú te levantas · él/ella/usted se levanta · nosotros nos levantamos · ustedes se levantan · ellos/ellas se levantan
Do it now — on paper
Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with levantarse.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out levantarse, presente in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.