Use of "en" with donde?

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Siempre mira/vigila en donde babeas y cuídate. Good bandit.

I understand the use of vigila and the use of cuídate. Thanks for pointing these out. But I´m not sure why ¨en¨ goes with ¨donde¨ for where in English? When you have time could you give me a little more feedback?

I haven´t looked at my post yet that you and Q were helping me with. I usually try to do my suggestions-corrections on the words of the day, first! Thanks again! -- bandit --

I'm sorry this was meant for Deanski, I got the PM and answer box mixed up. Anyway if anybody needs more context let me know. Again, sorry. - bandit51jd, Jul 7, 2011

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Answer 2

Spanish prepositions are just different from English prepositions, so they don't translate well all the time.

¿A donde vas? - (To) where are you going?

¿De donde eres? - (From) where are you?

¡MIra en donde caminas! - Watch (in) where you walk. Here the preposition in English would never be used, but you can sense the meaning.

Excellent examples, Jeremias! Muchas gracias! - bandit51jd, Jul 7, 2011