Translate: "queriendome a mi" and "a mí no me"

Question

I need help understanding/translating the provided phrase. Here are some examples:

(source: Un pez, dos peces, pez rojo, pez azul por Dr. Seuss -traducido Yanitzia Canetti)

A mí no me gusta esta cama ni un poco. [ENG] I do not like this bed at all.

(source: Bilingual Reading Grade 1 ©2010 Stech Vaughn)

A mí no me gustó cuando yo me tuve que bañara. [ENG] I was not glad when I had to take a bath.

(source: Pobre del Pobre por Hector Lavoe - Recordando a Felipe Pirela)

Te vas a casar queriendome a mi no tuve dinero pa verte comprado la felicidad

(source: Fotolog & Twitter via quick search on Google.)

Queriendome a mi misma (via Fotolog) Queriendome a mi misma mas que nunca (via Twitter)

I would like to understand the grammar behind the phrasing mí no me or queriendome a mi. A translation of the lyric from "Pobre del Pobre" would also be appreciated. Is this just an idiom that I should accept? Is there a grammatical rule that I need to learn?

Answer 1

no tuve dinero pa verte comprado la felicidad = no tuve dinero para haberte comprado la felicidad. That's slang, forget it. It's an artistic license.

I agree with Jubilado: In the phrase a mí no me gusta... the duplication of first person singular is similar to English: "As for me, I don't like..." This is very common in Spanish.

A mí no me gustó cuando yo me tuve que bañar (without the last "a")

THanks, I've been focusing too hard on trying to understand the correct underlying grammar that I totally forgot the possibility of slang. - VeeDraws, Mar 24, 2013

Answer 2

In the phrase a mí no me gusta... the duplication of first person singular is similar to English: "As for me, I don't like..."

In the sentence: Te vas a casar queriendome a mi no tuve dinero pa verte comprado la felicidad I am guessing that it means "You're going to marry loving me as I am, I don't have money to (pa is really para) see you bought happiness (to see that you are bought happiness)."

I hope this helps, but maybe a native speaker will provide more enlightenment.

THanks! It definitely helps, it makes sense . . . "As for me." - VeeDraws, Mar 24, 2013