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Hi,
From Duolingo: ¡Me usó la tarjeta para comprar un equipo de música! accepted translation: He used my card to buy a sound system! The card was mine, not his. Does it follow from the context, or is it determined grammatically? He could have used his card to buy me a sound system, after all ![]() |
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Colloquial usage of the indirect object pronouns. It underlines that a person did something that affected another, from the point of view of the offended.
![]() It's more commonly used with "me", because it's mostly my ego the one that's hurt by someone else's actions. "They did this to me!" ![]() Your sentence has the same meaning as: "Usó mi tarjeta de crédito para comprar(se) un aparato de sonido". ("Un equipo de música" is the same object, but in Mexico "aparato de sonido" is more common.) ![]() He used my money to buy something without my knowledge, so this is felt like he did this to me on purpose to hurt me. Some more examples: - Los niños no me comen bien. -> Obviously, the children won't eat their mother, but rather they refuse to eat the food she offers them. - Mi hijo se me casa el viernes. -> The son is getting married and the parent is sad about it. - El perro me destruyó todas las almohadas de la casa. -> The dog destroyed the pillows, with or without an intention to be obnoxious, but I felt it as a personal offense. - Nuestros bebés se nos fueron de la casa. -> Parents talking about their children leaving their home, obviously hurt by their action, even if it's not meant that way. ![]()
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