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Old February 14, 2010, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Rusty View Post
Good job. You caught the mistake made in the first sentence, and correctly translated it.
The verb burlarse is categorized as pronominal, which just means it has a pronoun. How it is used wasn't mentioned. Pronominal verbs fall into three categories: reflexive, reciprocal, and idiomatic pronominal

Burlarse is reflexive. That means the person and pronoun agree: (Yo) me burlo, (Tú) te burlas
YAY! I love it when I catch mistakes. It means that I am actually LEARNING SOMETHING! w00t!!

Okay - so that makes sense to me in the mechanics of the sentence structure. But it doesn't make sense to me in the meaning. If it is "Yo me burlo..." or "Tú te burlas..." does it mean that "I, myself, am teasing...." and "You, yourself, are teasing..."??

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