What does "uníanse" mean?????

Question

My Spanish teacher gave me this paragraph with this verb uníanse in it. I cant find the meaning of it anywhere on this site. It getsme P.O.'d when these verbs show up and no one says they exist???? I want to know what verb is it, what form(yo, tú, él) and what tense.And it would help it someone would know why this verb is to hars to find.

Answer 1

Easy. It's an archaic way of forming either an impersonal or a passive voice sentence, in which instead of putting the 'se' in front of the verb and separated from it, it is put as a suffix, just as if it were a d.o/i.o pronoun. In old Spanish it was usual to put all those as suffixes 'diole', 'entregole', 'hiciéronle'..

In old books you could read things like: 'Uníanse las personas para celebrar la boda', whereas in modern Spanish you would say 'Las personas se unían para celebrar la boda'. In other words, you got 'owned' by your teacher

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By the way, even in modern Spanish you will find the infinitive of pronominal or reflexive verbs with a 'se' at the end, like 'marcharse', 'lavarse', afeitarse', etc.. If you look up 'lavarse' in a dictionary it's almost guaranteed that you will not find it. You need to remove the 'se' at the end before you look it up: 'lavar', 'marchar', etc.. You'll then find that one ore more of its meanings have this comment on a side 'U. t. c. prnl', which means that it's also used as a pronominal verb.

Answer 2

Welcome to SpanishDict.com. This site has a verb conjugator. Go up to the top of the page and click on the "More" pulldown menu.

Scroll down to "Conjugation" and click on that. Put your verb, "unir" in and you will see the third person plural form of your verb under present subjunctive.

It says that this form is sometimes subjunctive.

Answer 3

I'm assuming that it's the formal plural command form of the verb 'unirse'. So, that verb alone in a sentence would mean "join each other".