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Pronouns order in a sentence

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Hello again smile

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 smile

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updated NOV 4, 2008
posted by Jakub

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Jakub said:

So basically the rule is I can glue pronouns yet I have to glue all of them not a single one? smile and give the verb an accent according to the accenting rules.

That's correct: it is either all or none.

updated NOV 4, 2008
posted by lazarus1907
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Thanks for the links! smile

updated NOV 4, 2008
posted by Jakub
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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]

updated NOV 4, 2008
posted by 00494d19
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So basically the rule is I can glue pronouns yet I have to glue all of them not a single one? smile and give the verb an accent according to the accenting rules.

Thanks smile

updated NOV 4, 2008
posted by Jakub
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a) No voy a perdonártelo nunca. Perfect

b) No te voy a perdonarlo nunca. Not possible.

updated NOV 4, 2008
posted by 00494d19
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