Another passive 'se' question

Question

I know there have been alot of passive question having to do with the use of 'se'. But I cannot find an answer yet for the one that I have:

I am studying the passive voice right now, and am learning things like "En los Estados Unidos se come carne."

What if you wanted to say something like "It is also eaten in Mexico." ??? How would you go about saying that?? Could you still form it in the passive, using 'se' ???

Maybe it is simply "En México también se come" ??????

Thanks in advance for any help.

"En México también se come" is correct too but here you haven´t repeated "carne" so you need to say "se la come" - 005faa61, Mar 31, 2011

Answer 1

Yes, that works.

OK, thanks. Is that the only way it can be said, though? - kelar, Mar 31, 2011

Answer 2

Have you ever heard the expression "They say that smoking is bad for you"?. If i said this to you, you wouldn´t think of a certain group of people saying this expression. They is referring to a vague or unidentified group of people.

Se can also be used like this Se come carne en los estados unidos - They eat meat in the united states.

http://www.drlemon.com/Grammar/impersonal.html

Better read it again. The impersonal "they" does not use "se" From the article ....Notice that the Plural Impersonal (unknown "they") does not use the se : - 0074b507, Mar 31, 2011

Se come would be "one does" or "you do" (impersonal one or you) - 0074b507, Mar 31, 2011

Answer 3

Hello Kelar and Welcome to the SpanishDict forum

I have just checked up about the passive voice in my book 501 verbs by Christopher Kendris ( a language professor)

se dice que: ** **it is said that ....people say that.. they say that... one says that... you say

se sabe que: it is known that....it is known that ...people know that etc...

On that basis I would confidently say se come = it is eaten

So you can say : En México también se come This is correct

Please remember to use accents Kalar they are important /put there for a good reason; -)

I hope this helps

OK, thanks. And oops, I forgot the accent!! I usually never type them because accents are not readily accessible, but when they are, I forget!!! - kelar, Mar 31, 2011

Kelar I understand that off site but we have accents available for use ijust below the answer boxes lol :) - FELIZ77, Mar 31, 2011