Preposicion Adecuada

Question

Por que no vienes___ (yo) a la fiesta ?

Answer 1

Ian - I'm not totally sure what you're asking. It might be better to give us your target in English. However if I assume that the (yo) in brackets means that you want to include "with me" then the answer is to use "conmigo". This is, of course, a wierdo word if ever there was one. The logical root of it is "with me" which should be "con mi" but it seems that this got converted millenia ago unless maybe it is itself an antique. It's still wierd though being, as it is, a one-word combination of a preposicion "con" and a pronoun "mi". For the record you also use "contigo" and "consigo". Finally - so I settled on "¿Por qué no vienes conmigo a la fiesta?" If I'm not on the beam there's no harm done and you can always come back and give us a bit more detail.

Hi, geofc! I wonder if the Spanish is a redundancy. With me and with you in Latin was mecum and tecum respectively which I think became cummecum and cumtecum and evolved to the present state. Just a thought. - Jubilado, Oct 28, 2012

Sounds plausible Jubi but I'm totally ignorant of mediaeval Latin so can't comment. Don't forget that Spain was quite an early Roman development so conmigo may be parallel with cummecum rather than later than. - geofc, Oct 29, 2012

My thought was that mecum, tecum being in use during Roman development sound shifted over time to migo and tigo and the con (a later sound shift of Latin "cum") was added to follow the developing Spanish syntax. Thanks for the reply and "Jubi" sounds neat - Jubilado, Oct 29, 2012

Jubi - I'm just lazy - geofc, Oct 29, 2012

You're lazy!? Look at the guy who posted this. Guess he just wanted someone to fill in the blank, can't even be bothered to vote! Chat soon, gotta go. - Jubilado, Oct 29, 2012

Answer 2

Study the conjugation of the verb venir in the present indicative tense. Also look up in an English dictionary the word preposition.

The sentence should begin: "¿Por qué no ..."

I'm sure you'll get it! Keep studying those lessons!