de ti nada me puede separar
Is there a reason that the prepositional phrase is at the beginning or could the sentence be "nada me puede separar de ti".
3 Answers
There's not much to say that Franco hasn't already said.
Word order is never totally flexible but this sort of inversion can apply and be used to good effect, not only in the emotional, poetical declarations but also to more "serious" and even technical writing. Our office secretary, many years ago, used to reduce some of my bolder flights in reports etc. to the vanilla version, equivalent to "nada me puede separar de ti" (yawn, yawn) when my intention was to emphasise a key point by using it to introduce the argument. Eventually, I hit on taking my drafts to my real live Spanish boss (from Gijon, Spain) who understood the difference and would usually back me up.
Be brave and think about the presentation of your message, not only about the "correct" version. It can be amazingly powerful to write with a wider purpose than simply to get an idea across.
Sorry but it's many years since I wrote a technical report, a system description or, heaven help me, a user manual in Spanish and I've lost the details.
Both are correct. De ti nada me puede separar is more poetic and it puts emphasis on the other person rather than on you. (From you, nothing can separate me vs. Nothing can separate you from me).
Just a side point, I would put the second option this way:
Nada puede separarme de ti.
Not sure why, just seems to flow better but it might just be me lol
