The infinitive of every **non-reflexive** Latvian verb ends in **-t**.

The infinitive of every **reflexive** Latvian verb ends in **-ties**.

So you could also say that **to make a verb 's infinitive form reflexive**,
you just **add -ies** to the **infinitive**.

### What is an infinitive?

One of my professors liked to say that the infinitive form is the "
**dictionary form** " because it is the form you would **look up in the
dictionary when translating** into English.

It is the basic form of the verb used to construct all of the other verbal
forms and is translated with " **to** " prepended when being used as a " _full
infinitive_."

> You can read a lot more about
> [infinitives](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive "Infinitive") at
> Wikipedia, but technical grammar is not my strong point so I'm going to stop
> here. When you translate into English, you'll pretty automatically know
> whether or not to leave the "to" on or off because it will either make sense
> and sound right or it won't.

### Examples:

  * **būt** : to be
  * **domāt** : to think
  * **mācīt** : to teach
  * **lasīt** : to read