Nunca te olvidé (Spanish Edition)
Along with the similar forms: However, you are also seeing examples of passive construction with "se". Se me olvidaron las llaves You can use "se" to construct passive sentences. These are roughly equivalent but better sounding to: La cita fue olvidada por mi. Las llaves fueron olvidadas por mi. A further example of "se" passive construction: So for instance, let's say you want to say "you forgot to bring the wine": You can also use repetition for emphasis, though: So is the reflexive form simply incorrect?
Or just less common? Or does it have some alternate meaning? You mean as "me olvidaron las llaves"? Like alex says, using the active form of the verb implies fault. Switching to the passive voice states that the thing was forgotten but passes it off as more of an accident than it assesses blame. Dec 9 '11 at It is also correct. Perhaps one trick is to ask yourself a question and see how would you answer it.
Icarus 2, 15 Although my question is really about the verb forms, it's good to know that I made a mistake by omitting the de. I have updated my question to include this, since the real question is about which verb form is correct. No se te olvide Are all of these forms considered "correct"?
Is there a preferred form for "I forgot" or "I have forgotten"? Please note that my question is about the verb form to use reflexive, versus non-reflexive, versus passive. I hope the rest of my sample questions are correct, but if they are not, please edit them to be grammatically correct.
Olvidar works like forget in English. The one doing the forgetting is the subject and the forgotten thing is the object.
Nunca Te Olvidé (English translation)
You can use "se" to construct passive sentences. These are roughly equivalent but better sounding to:. Which one should you use? Well, I think it's a matter of emphasis. Changing to a passive form emphasizes more the object.
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Both olvidar and olvidarse are correct. I think the best examples are in the DPD. Como transitivo, con sujeto de persona y un complemento directo que expresa lo olvidado olvidar [algo o a alguien]: Como intransitivo pronominal, con sujeto de persona y un complemento introducido por de, que expresa lo olvidado olvidarse de algo o alguien: Flimzy, your first example gets the piont across just fine brother.
However that form fails to take possession for the action as yours. Just means some of that general tenet of Mejicanisimo may really be rubbing off on you after all.
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We Mexicans have a habit of shortening our answer to the point of making it of no fault of our own, it just happened. Saying means past tense in he finite sense so as not to be able to change it.
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On a phone or tablet: I'm not too bad at Spanish but this simple sentence confused me. Why is "te" between the "se" and "olvide"? I assume Olvidar is in reflexive but I don't understand why. I do understand it's also in subjunctive because it's an Uds. But it was one cousin writing to another and it was in Spain so Please deconstruct it's meaning and grammar. I can't figure out what the two "le"s are for either but that's another question: Le tengo miedo a que se le acabe la tinta a mi teclado.
Olvidar is forget, completely, permanently.
Like forgetting a recipe of a dish that you only cooked once over 20 years ago. Olvidarse is to miss doing something like not locking the door the first day you leave the last one of your job. If the sentence "se me olvidaron las llaves" is translated word by word, you will end up with something like this:. The subject and the reflexive pronoun "se" before the verb is the object that is forgotten, and the indirect object "me" is the person who forgets. So "se" is "las llaves", or in the case of my sentence, the concept that was previously being discussed?
Which means something like "this was lost by me". Likewise "no se te olvide" is an expression with the subject and object flipped around. This passive voice is so hard for me!