se for unplanned occurrences
Modelo: Al asesor se le torció (torcer) el tobello cuando entraba a votar
Mi preguntas
- a los candidatos se le acabaron (acabar) el tiempo para consequir más votos.
- A la asesora se le perdió (perder) varios papeles importantes.
- A muchos ciudadanos se le olvidaron (olvidar) votar.
- A mi amigo y a mi se nos cayó (caer) las papeletas al piso cuando fuimos a entregarlas
I'm struggling with Se for unplanned occurrences, my answers are in italics but i believe they're all wrong.. Can someone please assist? thanks.
2 Answers
Se les acabó el tiempo.
It (the time) to them (the candidates) acabó (it, the time, ran out)
Se le perdieron various papeles.
They (the papers) to her (the consultant) they (got) lost (the papers)
So can you see that the verb agrees with the object and not the subject.
It's like it was the time's fault that it ran out or that it was the papers fault that they got lost.
I can help you a little bit. it has to be the thing, the object, that suddenly has somehting happen to it. Not that you did something.
The glass fell. They keys were locked in the car. My book got lost. ( It wasn't me ! as Shaggy says)
acabarse to run out of
caerse to drop
ocurrirse to dawn on, occur to, get the idea
olvidarse to forget
perderse to lose
quedarse to leave behind
romperse to break
I was driving and the car broke. i.e. it was sudden and it was the car's fault not mine. I broke the glass is not a "se" sudden thing. The glass broke is.
I think you are trying to blame the person or the doer, but it is the thing that has to have it happen to it, and it is its fault.
