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Dámelo. Dame. Dale.
I googled to find sentences and I'm not sure what I found.
Are the translations wrong? What's going on here? Dale que me ha. Give it to me. Dámelo. Give it to me. Dame un regalo. – Give me a gift. Wiktionary says dámelo is dar+me+lo. "Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronouns me and lo." Why is dámelo spelled with an á and dame is not? "Is Dale que me ha." a common form? |
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1. Words that end in a vowel letter (a, e, i, o, or u) or in one of the two consonant letters n or s are accented (stressed) on the second to last syllable, unless the word has only one syllable. 2. Words that end in any consonant letter EXCEPT n or s are accented (stressed) on the last syllable. 3. Any word whose accented (stressed) syllable does not fit either rule 1 or rule 2 MUST have a written accent mark over the main vowel of the accented syllable. This includes all words with 3 or more syllables whose accented syllable is not one of the two last syllables in the word. Dame and dale match rule 1. Dámelo does not match either rule 1 or rule 2, so it must follow rule 3. Quote:
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http://www.qhministries.org/Document.Doc?id=119 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you..._me_in_Spanish |
Google gives 14 pages: both you linked, two with Madonna's song, this very thread, another page saying other thing without using commas, and a few instances of documents that Google reads that way. Madonna's "translated" song, full of aberrations and a complete travesty, is the presumable source of the others.
As a rule of thumb when an expression in English returns X documents in Google, the Spanish equivalent should return about X/100 to X -it has to do with the way Google counts, not the actual number of documents, which is lesser-. For instance: "give it to me" => 5980000 results dámelo (1160000) + dámela (2450000) + me lo das (2420000) + me la das (1060000)=> 7090000 results |
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