Te voy a venir dejando - help with better construction
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I wouldn't have guessed that translation in a million years. Would it be correct to say "Pronto, voy a dejarte"?
What I'm looking at tells me "I'm going to come leaving you" Is that what is says (literally)?
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updated Oct 1, 2012
posted by island_fever
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I'd say: Pronto voy a dejarte o Pronto te dejaré
updated Oct 1, 2012
posted by francobollo
Does "Te voy a venir dejando" make sense? - --Mariana--, Sep 30, 2012
Not really. It sounds like "I'm fixing to leave you" - francobollo, Sep 30, 2012
Hehehe! Not so good. - --Mariana--, Sep 30, 2012
It was in another question in relation to a song translation. Is it kind of funky/different because it was in a song? Some kind of poetic license? - island_fever, Sep 30, 2012
Yes. I would suspect people would do no matter what to get a verse to rhyme - francobollo, Sep 30, 2012
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¡Buenos días!
Did you read this somewhere or did you construct the sentence?
The phrase "voy a" doesn't mean "I'm going to come," but rather "I'm going to ...(do something)." For example, "Voy a comer" means "I'm going to eat."
The structure is "Ir + a + infinitive verb" and it can be conjugated many ways depending on who's doing the action....
Tú vas a comer.
Ella va a comer.
Ellos van a comer.
Nosotros vamos a comer.
updated Sep 30, 2012
posted by --Mariana--
Someone else posed a question in relation to a song translation and Francobollo was able to figure it out. I was just trying to reconstruct it since he said the song construction was just awful. - island_fever, Sep 30, 2012
