Questions tagged [pronombres]
Uso de pronombres (palabras cuyo referente no es fijo, sino determinado por el contexto u otros sustantivos ya usados en la frase). // Use of pronouns (words that refer to another noun previously mentioned in the sentence or inferred from the context).
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¿Cuál es el sujeto y el objeto directo en la frase "Algo pasa a ella"? What is the subject and direct object of the sentence "Algo pasa a ella"?
Actualmente estoy tomando clases de español. Encontré esta frase
Algo pasa a ella.
en una clase cuando practicamos pronombres de objeto directo y objeto indirecto. El profesor me explicó que "...
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Unsure what "aquélla" refers to in this phrase
I'm reading Arturo Perez-Reverte's Hombres Buenos and am a bit confused by the following:
El siglo dieciocho fue otra de esas oportunidades perdidas: militares que leían, marinos científicos, ...
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Problems with relative pronouns
Hoy es el día que haré que se enamore de mí.
Here I literally can't understand a thing. Why there are two “que”?
hoy - today
es - is
el día - the day
que - that
haré - I will
que se enamore de mí: - ?...
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Can someone help me understand this sentence, specifically who "le" is referring to?
I'm currently learning the present perfect tense in my Spanish course, the following examples make sense to me and I don't have trouble understanding them:
"He visto las montañas de Perú" = ...
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Why does resultar have le/les before it?
What is the purpose of le/les in the following sentences:
Juan estaba intentando sentarse. Le resultaba difícil respirar.
Les resultaba difícil creerlo.
The verb gustar functions with a le/les ...
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¿Cuál es la palabra en español para "Mortar And Pestle"?
Estoy intentando traducir los subtítulos de una imagen de inglés a español.
I am attempting to translate the captions on an image from English to Spanish
¿Cuál es la palabra en espanol para "...
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"In my own words"
In English when I'm learning something new and complex from a patient teacher, I often like to try to repeat a part of what the teacher told me in my own words.
In English, I might say something like ...
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What exactly is 'dile'?
I couldn't find the entry in https://dle.rae.es/dile?m=form.
The translators translate it to "tell him". So, it looks like a contraction of a verb and a pronoun. However, I couldn't find ...
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"That's how they get you."
In English, I sometimes hear a conversation like this:
A: "Watch out for those teaser rates on loans. They say 0% interest, but that's only for a short period of time."
B: "That's how ...
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Como le fue - cual es el objeto indirecto
"Como le fue" - how did it go.
Why is the indirect object pronoun (le) used?
Is this one of those language "idioms" or expressions, that just have to be learned, or is there a ...
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Omission of complements: cases where this is not allowed? (question about reddit Spanish wiki)
The reddit r/learnspanish wiki has a section called "Omission of Complements."
It discusses differences in meaning or emphasis between pairs of sentences like the following:
Me castigaron. /...
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Distinguishing between indirect objects and circumstantial complements
According to this, a verb can take complements of four different types: attribute, direct complement, indirect complement (IC), and circumstantial complement.
I sometimes have trouble distinguishing ...
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"A los problemas del mundo no les doy mucha importancia." -> "No les doy mucha importancia."?
I asked a native speaker about when I could replace a prepositional phrase with a pronoun.
If I understood correctly, here is what they told me:
Usually, I can only do this when the object of the ...
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Le compré un regalo para Pedro
Is the following sentence correct?
Le compré un regalo para Pedro.
Does it mean the following?
I bought (from him/her) a present for Pedro.
I ask because a friend gave me the following example ...
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Ana, lanza el balón a la canasta
My quest to understand the relationship between prepositional phrases and indirect object pronouns continues.
In this book, I find the example sentence
Ana, lanza el balón a la canasta.
(Ana, shoot ...
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