Reciprocal Verbs: sie...sich

Reciprocal verbs in German, such as "sich" and "sie," indicate that the action described by the verb is being performed by multiple people on each other.

The reflexive pronoun "sich" or "sie" is used to refer to the reciprocal action that is being performed between the subjects of the sentence. For example,

Here, "uns" is the reflexive pronoun indicating that the hugging is mutual between the subjects "we".

Reciprocal Verbs: sie...sich

Reciprocal verbs indicate a relation between several subjects or objects. Hence, they have the special feature that they are only used in the plural with wir...uns, ihr...euch, and sie...sich.