Pronoun Help

Question

Here are a couple of verses from a song. The first thing I notice is all the pronouns. "Me alejaste de ti"? I try not to get too hung up on song lyrics but I would really like for the whole pronoun thing to start to make more sense to me?

¿Puede un hablante nativo (alguien) decirme si el contexto es correcto o que se haga de una manera poética?

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Te cansaste de mí

Me alejaste de ti

Y las sales del mar se seco

No se puede salvar

Lo que ya se quebró

Si en la piel esta escrito el final

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You have tired of me.

We have grown apart?

And the salt of the sea has dried.

One can not save

What is already broken

If in the skin the ending is written (esta escrito) estar+past participle?

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I think the literal translation of "me alejaste de tí" is "you moved me (away) from you" ... if that helps any. (I puzzled over that line a bit). - webdunce, Sep 8, 2010

Also, I'm not sure it's clear what you want explained. - webdunce, Sep 8, 2010

Thanks, I was having a hard time with alejaste (tu form preterit) I could'nt put it together with the Me pronoun. - MattM, Sep 8, 2010

Answer 1

Looks like you're doing fine to me except for minor things: you tired of me (there is no have in the preterite tense)

Me alejaste de ti...accepting the to grow apart for alejarse...you grew apart from me. There is no "we" there.

Actually something seems incorrect there. Assuming it is a pronominal verb (reflexive).

te alejaste de mí or me alejé de ti (me = reflexive pronoun)

Non-pronominal

me alejaste a mí (me = object pronoun)

I see that the answer to this usage has been provided.

las sales is plural so why not se secaron? (secó was misspelled)

And the salts of the sea were dried. (again, no "has"")

está escrito (written is an adjective) fue escrito (written is verb) [passive voice]

He has merely copied the translation from the website he links to, I think. I think he is wanting something about the translation explained, but I'm not sure what. - webdunce, Sep 8, 2010

I think he is giving his interpretation of the lyrics (the pronoun usage) and asking if his interpretations are correct. - 0074b507, Sep 8, 2010

You might be right. I see his version and the version at the site he links to are not an exact match...I thought they were at first. - webdunce, Sep 8, 2010

I agree, it's just that the "to grow apart" is listed under pronominal verb in the dictionary "alejarse". That is why I couldn't follow the lyric. - 0074b507, Sep 8, 2010

I liked your explanation and to grow apart was just the wrong interpretation. More like "you distanced me from you " or ""ou distanced yourself from me" as we would probably say in English. - 0074b507, Sep 8, 2010

Thanks guys. The está escrito as an adjective is what I was looking for. When I see the participle I'm in the habit of looking for the auxilliary verb (haber). - MattM, Sep 8, 2010

Salts of the sea sounds a bit strange. It's like clouds of volcanic ash. It sounds more normal as a cloud of volcanic ash, or salt of the sea. - MattM, Sep 8, 2010