"No te voy a presionar" vs. "No voy a presionarte" and many more phrases I'm unsure of.

Question

1)Is there a difference, and/or is the second one wrong?

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Other phrases he wrote to me:

• 2)"Sé que no soy muy bueno para escribir"

I would write "no estoy", and the rest I haven't a clue about. "Bueno para escribir"? Why not "Sé que no escribo bien"? What exactly are they conveying with how they chose to say this?

• 3) "Esto me está ayudando" or "Esto está me ayudando"?

• 4) "Te he ofendido" or "He te ofendido"?

• 5) "No lo volviere a hacer" o "No volviere a hacerlo"?

I don't know much about future tense. If neither is necessarily incorrect, do they mean exactly the same thing if "lo" is put in either place?

• 6) "Quiero que me ayudes."

Why "ayudes" and not "ayudas"? -And is "que" needed?

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It's a lot, I know. He's a native speaker, so I ponder it before I assume it's an error. I don't expect any individual to answer all of these. If you'll answer just one I'll appreciate your help!

Thanks much!

It's vovere not volviere :) - rpem, Nov 29, 2011

What makes you say that? Volviere is the future subjunctive, it literally is most commonly translated as "to return" but it can idiomatically mean "to become." It's hard to tell which it is out of context though. Is vovere a word? - ninjacowgirl, Nov 30, 2011

Answer 1

For 3 and 4, you're never going to put the direct object pronoun, indirect object pronoun, or reflexive article in between two parts of a compound verb like "está ayudando" or "he ofendido." It will always be "te he ofendido" and "me está ayudando."

But when it comes to tacking on the article after the infinitive (5 and 1), it can go both ways. So yes, it does mean exactly the same thing. Just don't ever tack the article onto the end of a conjugated verb. In that case it always goes before.

For 6, he's using the subjunctive conjugation, which explains the que and the e. The subjunctive is used for expressing wishes, emotions, influence, request, doubt, denial, and hope.

As for 2, I think he is saying "I know that I am not very good at writing." Para can mean a lot of things, but here I think it's taking on a meaning similar to:

For Miguel, baseball was hard. For Jose, baseball was easy.

So he's saying "I know that I'm not very good for writing" as in "I know that I'm not very good when it comes to writing."

Hope this helps!

You answered everything perfectly, thank you! :) - RheaXIII, Nov 29, 2011

No problem! - ninjacowgirl, Nov 30, 2011