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¿Un "se" o dos?Grammar questions– conjugations, verb tenses, adverbs, adjectives, word order, syntax, etc. |
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What Rusty said.
The 3 correct sentences that contain "se" are potentially ambiguous: depending on the context, one may understand them as impersonal OR one may understand them as personal (that is, some definite and known third-person singular subject). One could use the subject pronoun "uno" in all of these sentences to imply an impersonal meaning: Uno se debe levantar temprano. Uno debe levantarse temprano. Cuando uno se levanta temprano. |
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Sometimes the indirect complement "LE" becomes a "SE" when it has the 3rd person form three times in the same sentence, I will make myself clear:
"They killed his son" "Le mataron al hijo" "Al hijo se lo mataron" 2nd example: What did you do with the book I gave you? As you told me, I gave it to her. ¿Qué hiciste con el libro que te di? Como me dijiste, SE LO di. (Instead of LE LO, since LE = indirect complement for the 3rd person, LO direct complement, the book itself) |
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