Ask a Question

(Create a thread)
Go Back   Spanish language learning forums > Spanish & English Languages > Grammar

Se habría visto precisado a dejarse llevar

 

Grammar questions– conjugations, verb tenses, adverbs, adjectives, word order, syntax, etc.


 
 
Thread Tools
  #1
Old Today, 05:12 PM
Quaeso's Avatar
Quaeso Quaeso is online now
Ruby
 
Join Date: Nov 2025
Location: Mandan, Dakota Del Norte, EU
Posts: 33
Native Language: Inglés
Quaeso is on a distinguished road
Se habría visto precisado a dejarse llevar

Quote:
Pero si [el hombre quien estuvo en el desván] hubiese querido llevárselo, no hubiera tenido que esperar tanto tiempo, pensaba Marcelino. ¡Tantas veces había estado él casi solo en el convento, por la huerta y por el campo! Con un hombre no habría podido luchar y se habría visto precisado a dejarse llevar quieras que no. -Marcelino ch.3
The phrase se habría visto precisado a dejarse llevar has a lot of verbs in it. I think that I get the main idea, but what are the subjects of dejarse and llevar?

Last edited by Quaeso; Today at 07:48 PM.
   
Get rid of these ads by registering for a free Tomísimo account.
  #2
Old Today, 06:46 PM
aleCcowaN's Avatar
aleCcowaN aleCcowaN is online now
Diamond
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Sierra de la Ventana, Argentina
Posts: 3,508
Native Language: Castellano
aleCcowaN is on a distinguished road
It's the same subject all along the expression: the young and, to some degree, defenceless Marcelino. In that hypothetical situation, Marcelino feels pressed and obliged to do something in a context of lack of freedom or choice (verse precisado), consisting in allowing himself to be abducted without resisting (dejarse llevar).
__________________
Sorry, no English spell-checker
  #3
Old Today, 07:52 PM
Quaeso's Avatar
Quaeso Quaeso is online now
Ruby
 
Join Date: Nov 2025
Location: Mandan, Dakota Del Norte, EU
Posts: 33
Native Language: Inglés
Quaeso is on a distinguished road
Thank you, I see how the subject of dejarse would be Marcelino, but if Marcelino were also the subject of llevar, then it seems that he would be the one abducting (that is abducting either himself or some other object), which seems unlikely here.

Last edited by Quaeso; Today at 07:55 PM.
 

Link to this thread
URL: 
HTML Link: 
BB Code: 
Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Site Rules

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Habria pensado Jellybaby Translations 1 March 16, 2015 03:07 PM
Has visto al / Has visto el .. ? Caramelita Grammar 1 May 13, 2013 11:06 PM
Dejarse llevar poli Idioms & Sayings 9 May 17, 2011 11:03 AM
No dejarse nada por el camino ROBINDESBOIS Idioms & Sayings 4 February 20, 2011 01:08 PM
Habia visto soyricogringo Grammar 2 October 14, 2008 04:16 PM


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 08:18 PM.

Powered by vBulletin®
Copyright ©2000 - 2026, vBulletin Solutions Inc.

X