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| Haldor Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5616 days ago 103 posts - 122 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Swedish Studies: French, Spanish | Message 1 of 2 18 January 2012 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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My Spanish teacher explained us something about accidental verbs, verbs that are similar to both intransitive verbs, like 'gustar' where the verb is conjugated by the direct object, and reflexive verbs. Examples of such accidental verbs are "caer", "perder", "olvidar" etc.. I never really understood this subject, and I couldn't find anything on this matter on the internet. Does anybody know how this works or an internet site on this matter?
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| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5600 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 2 of 2 18 January 2012 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
The definition of an intransitive verb is, that ist has no direct object. Me gustan los animales. The animals appeal to me. Here is an illustration for accidental verbs. When they speak of subject, they mean the logical subject in English, not the grammatical subject in Spanish: Se le cayó la pluma. He dropped the pen. Der Stift fiel ihm hin. In Spanish you have many queer uses of the reflexive pronoun "se". 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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