Placement of "mi" in a sentence.
Would I say, "El domingo, voy mi al cuarto para dormir." Or, "El domingo, voy al mi cuarto para dormir."
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but Paralee said that "a" and "el" go together to make "al". she said you wouldn't say "voy a el cuarto", you would say, "voy al cuarto" I was just wondering where "mi" would go for "my room"
Even in English you say either "to the room" (al cuarto) or "to my room" (a mi cuarto), but not "to the my room" (al mi cuarto).
El domingo voy a mi cuarto a dormir.
You can also say "para dormir", but it is less common. The comma should not be used, unless you want to make a deliberate and unexpected stop after "domingo".
but Paralee said that "a" and "el" go together to make "al". she said you wouldn't say "voy a el cuarto", you would say, "voy al cuarto" I was just wondering where "mi" would go for "my room"
A + el > al is a different matter. To address your question about mi, and to keep it simple for now,
"mi" is a possessive adjective that means my. Although there are 3 or 4 ways to indicate possession in Spanish, and although there are several types of possessive adjective, the short possesseve adjectives like "mi" always precede the noun they modify.
The short possessive adjectives are
mi, mis - my
tu, tus - your (informal usage)
su, sus - his, hers, its
Nuestro, (-a) - ours
vuestro, (-a) - yours (plural)
su, sus - their, your (formal usage)
Don't mean to complicate things too much, but there are two basic ways to say that something belongs to you:
1) el/la + object ==> mi + object ("mi" replaces the definite article)
el cuarto ==> mi cuarto
You no longer have the "el" there to make the a + el = al contraction. Therefore,
Voy a mi cuarto.
2) el/la + object ==> el/la + object + mío/mía
el cuarto ==> el cuarto mío
This is usually done to emphasize that this object is mine. The "el" remains in place, therefore:
Voy al cuarto mío.
