He or she how do i know?
Nos ha visto llegar Olvidó dejar su dirección Dejó caer la bandera No puede venir Could anyone please explain to me how the sentences refer to he or she ? PS.best wishes Kat .
3 Answers
It's a characteristic of the latin languages.The third person,singular and plural.If the clauses have no adjectives and pronouns, we we cannot know if it is he or she.In your example you had to write '' la dirección de el / ella'' instead of '' su dirección''. NOUN+DE+PERSONAL PRONOUN, THIRD PERSON,SINGULAR AND PLURAL
Es una característica de las lenguas latinas.La tercera persona,singular y plural.Si las oraciónes no tienen adjetivos o pronombres, no podemos saber si es el o ella.En tu ejemplo tenías que escribir '' la dirección de el / ella'' en lugar de '' su dirección'' SUSTANTIVO+DE+PONOMBRE PERSONAL,TERCERA PERSONA,SINGULAR Y PLURAL
We can't tell the subject of those verbs unless there is a name or an él or ella somewhere in your paragraph, which I don't see. The verbs are conjugated in the third person singular, so we know that whoever is doing the verb, he/she is doing it alone, but that's all we know. We need a pronoun to tell exactly who is doing it. Your sentences are fine like they are, but it can mean either a boy or a girl is doing it.
The Spanish love doing this, dropping the personal pronouns. Somewhere prior to what you have read must have been some context indicating whether that person was male or female. Once this was known there was no need to continue with él or ella. We do it in English as well,
He looked me in the face and then (he) walked away.
or
He looked me in the face and then walked away.
By omitting the second (he), it still makes sense.
