Pronouns order in a sentence
Hello again
I have this sentence from my beloved Spanish course:
No te lo voy a perdonar nunca.
Which I believe means: I'm never going to forgive you.
I've seen this cool trick in gerundio fueled sentences as well as with single pronouns - that we can connect the pronoun to the end of a verb. Will those sentences be correct (or maybe bad, or just ok yet quite weird sounding):
a) No voy a perdonartelo nunca.
b) No te voy a perdonarlo nunca.
Thanks in advance
5 Answers
Jakub said:
So basically the rule is I can glue pronouns yet I have to glue all of them not a single one?
and give the verb an accent according to the accenting rules.
That's correct: it is either all or none.
Thanks for the links!
Jakup, you will get a more advanced answer on this from Lazarus, our grammar expert.
In any case, this is basically it. I don't know if you read Spanish really well, if that is to, check the rules here:
[url=http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltGUIBusDPD'lema=pronombres%20personales%20]http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltGUIBusDPD'lema=pronombres%20personales%20[/url]átonos
Perdonátelo is "esdrújula" and must have a written accent.
Have you seen the thread about writing accents?
Have a look at our resources.
[url=http://my.spanishdict.com/forum/topic/show'id=1710195%3ATopic%3A329534]http://my.spanishdict.com/forum/topic/show'id=1710195%3ATopic%3A329534[/url]
So basically the rule is I can glue pronouns yet I have to glue all of them not a single one? and give the verb an accent according to the accenting rules.
Thanks
a) No voy a perdonártelo nunca. Perfect
b) No te voy a perdonarlo nunca. Not possible.