Breakdown of Mis amigos se hablan por videollamada los domingos.
Questions & Answers about Mis amigos se hablan por videollamada los domingos.
Se here shows that the action is reciprocal: the friends talk to each other.
Mis amigos hablan por videollamada.
= My friends talk by video call (they might be talking to other people, not necessarily to each other).Mis amigos se hablan por videollamada.
= My friends talk to each other by video call.
In Spanish, when two or more people do something to one another, you often use se with a plural verb:
- Se ven todos los días. – They see each other every day.
- Se escriben emails. – They write emails to each other.
So se here doesn’t mean “themselves”; it marks a mutual / each other relationship with a plural subject.
Not by itself. For “they talk to themselves,” Spanish normally clarifies it with a sí mismos / a sí mismas:
- Se hablan a sí mismos. – They talk to themselves.
- Se habla a sí mismo. – He talks to himself.
Without that a sí mismos, when the subject is plural (mis amigos), se hablan is understood as they talk to each other. Context plus the plural subject almost always makes the reciprocal reading the default.