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Old February 22, 2009, 07:04 AM
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Pronoun confusion

"...guerra es un mal necesario"
Im then trying to say "without it...."

Direct object pronoun?
inderect object pronoun?

Its got me confused becase "sin lo" etc dosen't sound right

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Old February 22, 2009, 08:17 AM
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"...guerra es un mal necesario"
Im then trying to say "without it...."

Direct object pronoun?
inderect object pronoun?

Its got me confused becase "sin lo" etc dosen't sound right

Gracias
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La guerra es un mal necesario.

Guerras son un mal necesario.

Would that help to make up your mind?
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Old February 22, 2009, 09:02 AM
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I like the idea of the sentence composite of this way.

La guerra es un mal inecesario.
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Old February 22, 2009, 11:06 AM
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without it = sin ella

Without is a preposition, and it is the object of the preposition. It is also a pronoun, standing in for the word war. Applying these concepts to Spanish, the preposition is sin and the object pronoun is ella. It is femenine because the word it stands for (la guerra) is femenine.
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