Form of "quedar"

Question

Rosetta stone uses the phrase "él no tiene una reserva de hotel. Tiene que quedarse aquí esta noche" Is "quedarse" being used as a verb in the second sentence, and if so, what form is it? I didn't see it under the conjugation of "quedar". Thanks.

PS. How can I capitalize the é in él?

Answer 1

"Quedarse" is a combination of "quedar", stay/rest/remain etc. the infinitive of (guess what?) "quedar" and the pronoun "se", yourself/himself/herself. This is a very common usage to glue "se" or another pronoun onto a verb, not just the infinitive. Examples are, "fijase", you just remember, "esperate", wait on, "digame", tell me etc. etc.

Oops, I missed the accented E. Well you can't do it in SD, there are no facilities and anyway most grammars will tell you accents are not used for upper case. - geofc, Oct 28, 2012