There are personal and possessive Serbian reflexive pronouns. Personal reflexive pronouns are equivalents to English pronouns like “myself, yourself, himself” and so on with –self, and possessive reflexive pronouns are equivalents to “my own, your own, his own” and so on with “own”.
Reflexive pronouns are the same for every person.
Declension of personal reflexive pronouns:
| Nominative | – | – |
| Genitive | Sebe | Myself/yourself/himself/herself/ourselves/yourselves/themselves |
| Dative | Sebi | |
| Accusative | Sebe, se | |
| Instrumental | Sobom | |
| Locative | Sebi | |
| Vocative | – | – |
Declension of possessive reflexive pronouns:
Svoj (m), svoja (f), svoje (n), svoji (m, pl), svoje (f, pl), svoja (n, pl) – my/your/his/her/our/their own
Case endings are the same as the endings of non-reflexive possessive pronouns.
| Singular | Plural | |||||
| Nominative | Svoj (m) | Svoja (f) | Svoje (n) | Svoji (m) | Svoje (f) | Svoja (n) |
| Genitive | Svojeg | Svoje | Svojeg | Svojih | Svojih | Svojih |
| Dative | Svojem | Svojoj | Svojem | Svojim | Svojim | Svojim |
| Accusative | Svoj/Svojeg | Svoju | Svoje | Svoje | Svoje | Svoja |
| Instrumental | Svojim | Svojom | Svojim | Svojim | Svojim | Svojim |
| Locative | Svojem | Svojoj | Svojem | Svojim | Svojim | Svojim |
| Vocative | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Examples
Ona voli svoj posao – She loves her (own) job (posao – job, voleti – to love);
Šta ćeš raditi sa svojim kompjuterom? – What will you do with your (own) computer?
On voli sebe – He loves himself
Zadrži to za sebe – Keep it for yourself
