Fijate
Fijate
in the dictionary : the verb fijar: to set,to establish,to fix....
my teacher said that fijate is like saying LOOK!! followed by an explaination or a reason.
im still confused, could anyone give me the exact meaning for it and tell me in what situations we can use this word, if possible i would like to have some examples in english that have similar meanings aswell.
20 Answers
Maybe in English. In Spanish no one would ever say "pronomial". It sounds awful!
Sounds better than pronominal in English, at least to my ear. And it makes sense, too. Nom is French for noun, and English was heavily influenced by French. So pronom makes sense to us as a variant of pronoun. And the suffix -ial is very common in English. So pronomial is entirely logical.
By the way, I can't find "pronomial" in this site's dictionary either.
See the following, for example.
Natasha said:
P.S. I´ll go out on a limb and bet this is one of those spelling variations that eventually gets accepted just because it´s so prevalent. Look, it is even in published books
Maybe in English. In Spanish no one would ever say "pronomial". It sounds awful! If we did that, we'd have to remove the N from *
ignominia, ignominiosamente, denominativo, ignominioso, denominar, innominable, denominador, innominado, denominadamente, nominación denominación, nominador, cognominar, nominal, agnominación, nominalismo, adnominal, nominalista, nominalización, nominalizar, nominalmente, nominar, nominátim, nominativo, nominilla, posnominal, postnominal , prenominal, pronominado, pronominal*, and trasnominación.
Unlike in English, the matching between spelling and sound makes it these sort of spelling mistakes very rare (the common ones are those with H, B, V,...).
These dictionaries have "pronominal", but not "pronomial":
' Oxford English Dictionary
' Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
' Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
' Collins Dictionary of English
' The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
' Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
' Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Actually, I haven't found "pronomial" in any dictionary yet.
By the way, I can't find "pronomial" in this site's dictionary either.
I have no idea, but can we get our site dictionary fixed so we don´t look so dumb? (I am happy to see that the n / ñ problem in the dictionary has been fixed, so surely this would be a small change in comparison.)
P.S. I´ll go out on a limb and bet this is one of those spelling variations that eventually gets accepted just because it´s so prevalent. Look, it is even in published books:
[url=http://books.google.com/books'q=spanish+pronomial&btnG=Search+Books]http://books.google.com/books'q=spanish+pronomial&btnG=Search+Books[/url]
lazarus1907 said:
I am just wondering... would those 10 million pages also write...? a nomial charge (instead of nominal charge)
nomiate someone for a job (instead of nominate someone for a job)
the case for the subject is nomiative (instead of nominative)
an ignomiious end (instead of an ignominious end)
the denomiator of a fraction (instead of denominator)
All from the same Latin root, of course. Why would anyone want to drop that poor N?
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I am just wondering... would those 10 million pages also write...?
a nomial charge (instead of nominal charge)
nomiate someone for a job (instead of nominate someone for a job)
the case for the subject is nomiative (instead of nominative)
an ignomiious end (instead of an ignominious end)
the denomiator of a fraction (instead of denominator)
All from the same Latin root, of course. Why would anyone want to drop that poor N'
James Santiago said:
The pronominal spelling does get over 10 million hits, but there seem to be quite a few sites that look otherwise respectable, but are using the pronomial spelling.
Interesting , as it is even listed as a common misspelling in answers.com:
