I Wash My - I Washed My

Chinese has an uncomfortable list with sort of middle meanings to the point where they'll just add an object. Chinese is a lot of that redundancy in having two like two verbs that mean the same thing or using having an object built into that I think. With all sorts of complications for them studying classical Chinese we can omit for now. So then we get to my the lovely word auto-benefactive. That's when you do something for its own benefit this is the common example in every beginning ancient Greek textbook trying to explain to you why the middle is called that.