another type of personal pronoun is called the 'reflexive pronoun'. reflexive pronouns are the words ending in '-self' or '-selves', such as: "myself, itself, themselves". one of the primary functions of reflexive pronouns is for situations in which a single agent is both the doer of the action and the receiver of the action. for example, if i cut my finger, we don't typically say "i cut me." in english; we use the reflexive pronoun and say "i cut myself."