Me he quedado sin bateria
My battery went out?
Wondering about this "Me he quedado" construction.
Me he quedado solo.
Me he quedado dormido.
Me he quedado sin lector de DVD
I think it stems from this construction:
quedarse dormido - to fall asleep, or this one - quedarse sin dinero - to be left penniless.
So think it's like
Me he quedado sin bateria - My battery went out (I am left without battery)
Me he quedado solo - I am left alone (I am all alone)
Me he quedado dormido. _ I have fallen asleep
Me he quedado sin lector de DVD - I found myself without a DVD reader, my DVD reader went out
6 Answers
I have an alternative meaning for this sentence.
Where I grew up, "me quedé sin batería" means "my car's / phone's / computer's / hearing aid's batter ran out".
The way I look at it is if you're referring to yourself and you being in control or having the emotion, doing the action, being responsible etc, eg. you are quiet, you are the one going to remember someone's face with the stress on you, you would use 'me he quedado .....'
But if you're stressing the thing or other person involved (even if it's your observation and your feeling is involved), you use ha or han.
Eg. 'You' look pretty to me. (somehow making the person responsible for looking so good rather than it just being your perception?), what's happened has become clearer, the game doesn't have sound.
El ascensor se ha quedado parado.
Me he quedado con tu cara
Me ha quedado mucho más claro lo que ha pasado.
Me he quedado muda al ver la foto.
Me he quedado realmente mucho ms tranquilo.
¡Qué bonito me ha quedado!
El juego se me ha quedado sin audio.
I may have missed the whole point of your question and/or be getting it wrong myself je je but I hope the examples might be of some use ![]()
¡Qué curioso! Nunca lo había pensado pero, en efecto:
Me quedé sin batería
significa,
Mi móvil/ordenador... se quedó sin batería.
Con un 99% de frecuencia de uso para la primera expresión frente a un 1% para la segunda, aproximadamente.
Interesante esta identificación del hombre con la máquina. Gracias, Jeezz ![]()
Me he quedado = I ended up alone, vacío, I have ran out of battery, I have fallen asleep
Just a chuckle this morning...Si te has quedado sin batería, ponte las pilas!.
A little fun with the common expression "ponerse las pilas" - to get a move on, to speed it up.
Me he quedado and me ha quedado are the most difficult things for me lately.