the representation of it in spanish
maybe am just from the ice age but i just can't seem to wrap my mind around the representation of it in spanish. sometimes i get it confused with the direct and indirect pronouns...somebody anybody, simple explanation please and incorporate the masculine and feminine impact on the representation of it. many thanks.
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De acuerdo, una pesadilla
pronombres, una pesadilla
See if this helps
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IT is omitted in Spanish a lot when IT is an unreal subject, like "It's cold out" (huh? what is it? The pronoun for the Weather, I guess), which would just be "hace frio".
But this is true for all the subject pronouns: you don't have to say You, He, She, because it is included in the form of the verb. That's clever!
With the indirect and direct pronouns, look at the article of your noun. That will tell you which pronoun to use, la or lo. Sorry, you have to know. So if you give me the book, libro, you give me lo... usted me lo da. Yes, you have to know to put the direct after the indirect, but what's nice is stacking them all on the end, which we're not allowed to do in English. Can someone throw in a good example? Tell me it to me, "digamelo."
This is complex but not impossible, my friend, y es explicado en cada texta de espanol, y en muchas lecciones del internet.
When "it" is the subject, it is omitted from Spanish.
It's really small = Es muy pequeño
When "it" is an object, it is expressed by lo or la, according to the gender of the noun.
I bought it (a car) = Lo compré
I bought it (a house) = La compré
Are we talking about "it"?
Please give an example (in English) of what you mean.
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