Those pesky body parts.
Hello. I am the Crabbycat and this is my first post. Forgive me if I do so incorrectly. I am an intermediate Spanish student and am trying to grasp and improve my grammer.
My question relates as to whether or not to use pronouns when talking about body parts. For example, I recently came across the sentence:
"Mi frente se pone caliente cuando tengo fiebre." My forehead gets hot when I have a fever.
Why is it "mi frente" and not "la frente"?
Could the sentence also be structured something like: "Se me pone caliente la frente cuando tengo fiebre."
gracias! =^.^=
4 Answers
La frente se me pone caliente cuando tengo fiebre
Mi frente se me pone caliente cuando tengo fiebre
Se me pone caliente la frente cuando tengo fiebre
Se me pone caliente mi frente cuando tengo fiebre
You can say "la frente" or "mi frente". Why not?.
What happens is "my forehead" is "mi frente".
However, we say "la frente" or "mi frente".
If you say this in this way, you will not have any problems.
But, if you say:
La frente se pone caliente cuando tengo fiebre. It is incorrect because whose is the forehead?. Notice that you haven't added "me".
Mi frente se pone caliente cuando tengo fiebre. It is correct because you don't need to put "me" because you know whose the forehead is.
It's simply because it's your forehad, otherwise it would be : La frente se calienta cuando estoy enferma..or whatever, that's an experimental slight change, meaning the forehead heats up when I'm illl. Your 2nd sentence looks correct to me, but I'm only a learner, await other answers.
Y a mí, me calienta todo el cuerpo cuando tengo fiebre..
Hi Crabbycat!
Welcome to SD 
Mi frente se pone caliente cuando tengo fiebre.--Corrrect!
Se me pone caliente la frente cuando tengo fiebre. --Correct!
Cuando tengo fiebre la frente se me pone caliente.--Correct!
La frente se me pone caliente cuando tengo fiebre.--Correct!
Sometimes there are diffent ways to say the same thing in Spanish.
I think both are correct. Note the difference in the pronouns attached to the verb.
Mi frente se pone (non reflexive).
Se me pone (reflexive) with the reflexive it is given that it is your forehead.
