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2 The forms of the re fl exive pronouns are as follows: 

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* Note that the third person singular and plural pronoun si  is the same for masculine and feminine. 

As can be seen from the examples, re fl exive pronouns are always placed before the verb. 

3 The negative is formed, as usual, by placing non  before the pronoun: 

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4 For the formal form, the pronoun si  (third person singular and plural) is used. In the plural, however, the pronoun vi  is most frequently used: 

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5 The plural forms of the re fl exive pronouns ( ci , vi , si ) are also used as reciprocal pronouns, corresponding to the English ‘each other’: 

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6R e fl exive pronouns can also be used, in contemporary spoken Italian, as indirect objects. One such use is to stress that the action expressed by the verb 

