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Mis deberes (ayuda por favor)
In my Spanish class (year two) we are just now learning formal commands. I just wanted to make sure I was doing them right on the homework! D=
------------------- 1. See me tomorrow! - ¡Véame usted mañana! 2. Don't bother us! - ¡No nos moleste usted! 6. Shut them! Make me! Leave us! Have it! - ¡Cérrelos usted! ¡Hágeme usted! ¡Sálanos usted! ¡Téngalo usted! 18. buy them for her! - ¡Cómpralelo usted a ella! 19. Read them for me! - ¡Léamelos usted! ------------------------ Thanks in advance! =] |
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The "usted" is unnecessary (and most of them sound unnatural).
#6: you've missed two changes of stem and used one wrong ending. (Plus "Make me!" in English doesn't usually mean "Create me" but rather "Force me to do it"). #18: check those pronouns. -lelo is not permitted. |
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#18 also has a wrong ending. Besides the lelo problem, the direct object pronoun is supposed to be plural according to the translation.
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I would leave out the usted if my teacher would count those right. She wants us to use usted whenever we make a command, if we don't include it, its wrong. =/
I'll correct these, and thanks for the help. =] Edit: Also, our teacher counts it wrong if we don't use lelo. I don't know why. She says its the rules. |
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Please you look out there. Cerrelos it should to be written as Cierrelos this is the way correct to write in Spanish. Corrections above.
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Sorry to disagree with your teacher, but lelo is very incorrect Spanish, sounds terrible, and should be avoided. Do not learn it that way. The correct way to write/say it is selo.
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Ah, then I shall use selo outside of the class then. Gracias!
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PJT, those sound weird to you because you live in Spain and you are British. |
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@Hernán: I'm not British, nor I live in Spain and "usted" with the imperative sounds weird to me too (anachronic, to say the least).
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I'm hoping her teacher is just trying to help the students make the connection between the ending and the person. The imperative with the additional subject pronoun sounds strange to my ears, too.
@Hernán: Cómpreselos a ella is a correct translation of 'Buy them for her'. It also happens to be the translation of 'buy them from her'. You can't tell which meaning was intended without more context. Comprar is a special verb. It can have just a direct object, as you wrote above, with a prepositional phrase (para ella) that names the recipient. There's no ambiguity with that kind of structure. If both an indirect object and a direct object are used, it's unclear whether we're buying for or buying from the indirect object. If context suggests we're buying for, our recipient is ella. If context suggests we're buying from, our seller is ella and we don't know who the recipient is. In this case, a second indirect object must be used to unmask the mysterious recipient. A second indirect object is introduced with para instead of a. "Cómpreselos a ella para mí," means 'buy them from her to give to me' | 'buy them from her for me' | 'buy them for me from her'. |
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