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Question

I cannot see what I'm missing for these sentences.

Example: A Cecilia / olvidar / la medicina en la farmacia. A Cecilia se le olvidó la medicina en la farmacia.

1.A ti / romper/ el brazo y la pierna

ti te rompías el brazo y la pierna.

2.A los enfermeros / dañar / las radiografías

A los enfermeros dañaba a las radiografías.

3.Al paciente / perder / los antibióticos

Al paciente perdía los antibióticos.

4.A Hugo y a ti se le cayó la bicicleta en los pies. A Hugo y a ti se te cayó la bicicleta en los pies.

Answer 1

These are sort of hard. They are introduced in the middle of my second semester class. I believe they are called "unexpected occurrences."

The model is "se" + indirect object pronoun (me, le, te, etc.) + verb in the preterite + anything else that may be in the sentence.

one. A ti se te rompieron el brazo y la pierna.

two. A los enfermeros se les dañaron las radiografías

three. Al paciente se le perdieron los antibióticos.

four. A Hugo y a ti se les cayó la bicicleta en los pies.

En España esto sería: "A Hugo y a ti se os cayó la bicicleta en los pies."

I hope that helps.

In Mexico "romper" means "tear" like tear paper. They prefer "quebrar." - Daniela2041, Dec 3, 2014

@sanlee--ocho revisiones esta vez! - Daniela2041, Dec 3, 2014

@ Danni , I think that you may mean "Tare" as in " tare in to pieces , or I tore it up". - ray76, Dec 3, 2014

Hi, Ray. My Webster's Spanish/English dictionary spells it the same way that I do--"tear" past "tore." For "tare" Webster's gives "arveja" which is "pea" in Latin Am. Spanish. - Daniela2041, Dec 4, 2014

I am on a break at work now. I have a big "Larousse" dictionary which might shed more light. We teachers have to be up on these things because the students like to give us a bad time if we make a mistake. - Daniela2041, Dec 4, 2014

Yup it worked. thanks - Myspanishisbad, Dec 4, 2014

Thanks for the comeback "Bad" You don't know how much it's appreciated. - Daniela2041, Dec 4, 2014

@Ray, Isn't a tare a kind of weed like the parable of the wheat and the tares? - sanlee, Dec 4, 2014

Great to know that this worked. Thanks. - sanlee, Dec 4, 2014

:) - sanlee, Dec 4, 2014

According to the KJV version of the Bible, yup! It's funny Webster's translates it as "arvejas." - Daniela2041, Dec 4, 2014

Answer 2

"Se te rompieron el brazo y la pierna." "You got your arm and leg broke". Use the preterite here. I prefer "partir".

A los enfermos dañaban las radiografías." "The X-rays harmed the patients". "Dañar" should be plural. "Dañar can be imperfect, depending upon what you mean. If the doctors didn't know at the time that they were dangerous, but later found out, they might say, " "Cuando supimos que las radiografías dañaban a los enfermos, cambiamos de inmediato la forma de diagnosticar sus males."

"El paciente perd'ia los antibi'oticos." " The patient wa always losing his antibiotics.".

!Uf! I lost my tildes!

A Hugo y a ti se les cay'o la bicicleta encima de los pies.". "The bike fell on Hugo's and your feet." That sounds weird in English.

Good! Since the example uses the preterito, though, I think at least the 3d should also use that tense. :) - Suzanne_Romijnders, Dec 3, 2014

Don Bigote, I recognized these sentences, They come up all the time in class. Check out my post. Without knowing the sequence of how the various points of grammar appear in the textbooks, and from the information that "bad" gave, there was no way for - Daniela2041, Dec 3, 2014

no way for anybody to know what he was talking about. - Daniela2041, Dec 3, 2014