Se lo impidió.
Tomás quiso decírselo todo a Ana, pero Elena se lo impidió.
I saw this sentence before. Se me caen las llaves. This means I don´t want those keys fall down, it´s not what I want, but they just fell down. From my point of view I didn´t want this happen, so , it´s Se me caen.
My question is, as in this example, it´s se lo impidió, So I was wondering, if this is also the same form like se me caen form?
1 Answer
Not quite- your examples at first are using the reflexive form to show that "the keys" fell on their own, so "caerse" was the reflexive verb and "me" was the recipient of the action. Same thing we you say, "se me perdió la cartera" (I lost my wallet) or "se le derramó la agua" (he/she spilt the water).
But in the second construction, you have a direct "lo" and indirect "se" object. It's basically saying, "Tomas wanted to tell her all of it, but Elena kept him from doing it." So you have the "him "and the "it", which is being represented by the "se" and "lo" pronouns. It really would be "pero Elena le lo impidio" but since they don't do the le/lo next to eachother with direct/indirect objects, it turns into se lo impidio.
I hope that makes sense!
