¡No sabes lo que te perdiste!

Question

¿ No fuiste a la fiesta de la Noche Vieja?

No pudeñ me invitaron a cenar unos amigos.

¡No sabes que lo que te perdiste! Fue muy interesante.

This paragraph is from my book.

My question is, why it´s perderse here? I think perderse is lost one´s way, to get lost of the way,and perder is to lost something, missed something, but why the reflexive here also means missed out? Does it also have this meaning?

Please can you translate or at least identify "pudeñ". If only a typo OK. - geofc, Nov 12, 2012

Answer 1

Your reference to the reflexive is not clear to me. Perdiste is, of course, the tú form preterite of perder, to lose. In this case it means "missed". You do not know what you missed.

Yes. - annierats, Nov 12, 2012

Answer 2

Perderse de algo is not reflexive. It's pronominal. And it means to miss out on something.

No sabes de lo que te perdiste or No sabes lo que te perdiste are both acceptable forms to express: You don't know what you missed.