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Question regarding "de los mios."

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Last night I gave myself a little challenge: I watched some of my favorite movie, Gone with the Wind, with just the Spanish subtitles. I turned off the sound so that I could not hear the English. I have seen the movie so many times, that I have memorized certain scenes. Anyway, at on point a character says in English, “They will not beat me, and when this is all over, I will never be hungry again, nor any of my people.” The Spanish subtitles (I took these directly from the film) say “Sobreviviré a esto, y cuando haya terminado, ni yo ni ninguno de los míos volveremos a pasar hambre.” I can understand the sentence as it translates to English, but she never says “de los mios personas (o familia),” just “de los mios.” So my question is, when one says “de los mios” in a sentence, can it simply refer to “your people?” Or am I just dealing with bad subtitles?

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updated Dec 10, 2010
posted by izzydia

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Yes, "los míos" can mean "my people" see mío in the SD dictionary. Great way to practice your Spanish, by the way. smile

updated Dec 10, 2010
edited by alba3
posted by alba3
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Los míos is a demonstrative pronoun in the prepositional phrase de los míos. When you say de las personas mías or de la familia mía (the long form demonstrative adjective must follow the noun.) you are using a different part of speech.

In other words you are trying to compare mine (possessive pronoun) with my (possessive adjective).

updated Dec 10, 2010
edited by 0074b507
posted by 0074b507
Great explanation, Q. Thanks! - 0066c384, Dec 10, 2010