Can me/te/se/nos also mean "to me/he/etc."?
I'm not sure what to call this, so please forgive me if someone else has already talked about it before. I've only today began studying Reflexive Pronouns. I've learned:
me - myself te - yourself se - himself/herself/yourself nos - ourselves se - themselves/yourselves
The part that is confusing me is: can these pronouns also mean "to me," "to you," etc.?
For example, I'm pretty sure you can say "Te gracias," to mean "Thank (to) you."
Is this correct, or do I just have no idea what I'm talking about? And, if I'm right, does using them that way give them a name other than "reflexive pronouns"?
Hope you can understand what I'm talking about. Thanks.
6 Answers
when you want to say - to me, for me, you use pronombres personales tonicos : mí, ti, él, nosotros, vosotros, ustedes,... these pronouns always follow a preposition, so it's : a ti, para ella, por mí (culpa) etc.
So, consensus is, I don't know what I'm talking about. Haha. I think some of that overlap that Jeremias was talking about is what has confused me. Thanks to everyone (gracias a les?) for your input.
You can say, ¡Te lo agradezco!, ¡Se lo agradezco!, ¡Le agrdezco! But you cannot say Te gracias. You can also say just ¡Gracias!
If you refer to this chart on personal pronouns you will see that all of the object pronouns are the same except for the 3rd person ones, so me, te, nos, and os can be either reflexive, i.o.p, or d.o.p. depending on the function that they are serving in the sentence.
Se can either be a reflexive or indirect object pronoun.
There is no "to he" as the pronoun must be objective case (him) after a preposition.
Close:
Gracias = Thank you
Te agradezco = I thank you
Gracias a ti = Thanks to you
Hi. The example you gave isn't right - it would be Gracias a tí - however, there is overlap between the indirect object pronouns and the reflexive pronouns.
The indirect object pronouns are:
me
te
le
nos
os
les.
You already named the reflexive pronouns.
Suerte!
