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is to the advantage of the subject (cf. English ‘I’m making myself a co ff ee’ [i.e. a co ff ee for myself], ‘They’re going to have themselves some fun’ [i.e. some fun for themselves]): 

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7 Another common use of the Italian re fl exive pronoun occurs in cases like the following, where English would use a possessive adjective (‘my’, ‘your’, etc.) rather than a re fl exive pronoun: 

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8 When re fl exive or reciprocal pronouns occur with a verb in the present perfect (or any other compound tense), the auxiliary is always essere  (even if the verb itself would form the past tenses with avere ), and the past participle always agrees with the subject: 

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9 The re fl exive pronouns, like all unstressed pronouns, can be attached to the in fi nitive of a verb (mainly after dovere , potere , volere  or sapere ). In these sentences, when the main verb is in the present perfect (or any other compound tense), the auxiliary is avere , and the past participle does not agree: 

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