📖LearnModule 4 · Lesson 8 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, completedUnit 2 · Los verbos reflexivos — the reflexive day
Me visto, me acuesto — dressed and to bed
Module 4 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2, completed), lesson 8 of 30: Vestirse (to get dressed) changes its stem: me visto, te vistes, se viste, nos vestimos. 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
vestirse
to get dressed
behs-TEER-seh
yo me visto
I get dressed
yoh meh BEES-toh
acostarse
to go to bed
ah-kohs-TAR-seh
yo me acuesto
I go to bed
yoh meh ah-KWEHS-toh
él se acuesta a las nueve
he goes to bed at nine
ehl seh ah-KWEHS-tah ah lahs NWEH-beh
despertarse
to wake up
dehs-pehr-TAR-seh
yo me despierto
I wake up
yoh meh dehs-PYEHR-toh
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
Vestirse (to get dressed) changes its stem: me visto, te vistes, se viste, nos vestimos, se visten. Acostarse (to go to bed) does too: me acuesto, te acuestas, se acuesta, nos acostamos, se acuestan.
Y también · And also
The reflexive day, in order: me despierto, me levanto, me ducho, me visto, me lavo los dientes… me acuesto. Despertarse (to wake up) is e-to-ie: me despierto.
Ojo · Watch out
vestirse and acostarse are stem changers: me visto, me acuesto — but nos vestimos, nos acostamos keep the plain stem, like every stem-changing verb.
vestirse, presente — the table
yo me visto · tú te vistes · él/ella/usted se viste · nosotros nos vestimos · ustedes se visten · ellos/ellas se visten
acostarse, presente — the table
yo me acuesto · tú te acuestas · él/ella/usted se acuesta · nosotros nos acostamos · ustedes se acuestan · ellos/ellas se acuestan
Do it now — on paper
Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with vestirse.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out vestirse, presente and acostarse, 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.