a que te dedicas?

Question

Why don't we say "tu" dedicas? I also do not understand why "a" is nessecary for this sentence.

Welcome to the froum:) - 00494d19, Sep 19, 2011

Spelling: "necessary" - pesta, Sep 19, 2011

Answer 1

Dedicarse is what's called a pronomial form of the verb, and it means "to do for a living". When you conjugate it the se part gets separated out (unless you're using the infinitive, positive imperative or gerundio form) and changed to match the subject doing the action, in this case it becomes te. The a is there because the phrase literally means "To what do you dedicate yourself?", so you need the "to". You could add the tú subject pronoun, but it's not necessary because it's implied in the conjugation.

Answer 2

Welcome . for getting information of pronouns have a look here and read the Pronouns part

and about using "a" you can find your answers here

Answer 3

Hi ben, well, the a is called the personal a, we need this to introduce the direct or indirect object with persons.

The verb is dedicarse, so te is the pronoun. We could say:

¿A qué te dedicas tú? but subject pronouns are seldom used in Spanish