Whenever you want to express an action that is unexpected, unplanned or accidental in Spanish like “Mycell phone fell from my hands” you would need to use the “se me”structure: “Se me cayó el celular”.

Lets use the same example: “ The cellphone fell”. If we use the reflexive structure, the Spanish sentence would be: “El celular se cayó”. Now, who is the victim of the accident?: me - “Se me cayó el celular”.

Another example: “Your clothes got wet”, would be: “Se te mojó la ropa”. Some verbs that follow this pattern in Spanish include:

• acabarse “to run out”
• pararse “ tostop”
• perderse “to lose”
• descomponerse “to fall apart”...