What does llorando te tanto mean?
Hi, I am trying to understand this sentence, this is exactly as my friend typed it "no imaginaba estar llorandote tanto". The word llorandote doesn't exist so I am assuming that he just forgot to space and it should read "no imaginaba estar llorando te tanto" and translating this it gives me "I never imagined to be crying so much" which makes perfect sense but I am confused about the "te", doesn't "te" mean you? I am just wondering if the translator is wrong because I know that you can't always count on that. Thanks
3 Answers
The phrase "...no imaginaba estar llorándote tanto.." means:
"I never imagined to be crying so much for you"
"te" indicates the "recipient" ( tú) of the action of crying= llorando.
I believe that in this conjugation, the option is given to either place the "te" before "llorando" or tack it on the end, as seen here with "llorándote", which I take to mean "crying to you".
Google lists 112,000 results for "llorandote".
As well as 32,300 results for the correct version: "llorándote".
There are various cases where the pronoun, an Indirect Object, Direct Object, Relative, or some other kind of pronoun can be "appended" at the end of a word.
I can only think of three cases myself though.
The one I think people first learn, though perhaps not first see, is the "imperative." The imperative is the way you make commands in Spanish. You can only append pronouns in positive commands in Spanish. Negatives follow normal constructions. "dámelo" is one example of a positive command. It means "give me it." A lot of times you have to add accent marks when writing, so that the stress remains the same, but I have no clue about these kinds of things.
The second one is when it follows an infinitive. Voy a buscarlo. "I'm going to search for it."
And the final is the type you've just mentioned. This is what we call the "gerund." It is the "ing" form of words in Spanish. Aprendiendo, buscando, hablando. You can tack on a lo me te le etc. to these words and it is like if you had said it before whatever the conjugated word in the sentence was. You can add melo, telo, etc.
