"Ella y yo queremos ser amigos."

Translation: She and I want to be friends.

[JustChris89]

I put: "Her and I want to be friends". Hhmm. Maybe I should work on my English grammar!

OK so for future: 'She and I' or 'her and me'

"She and I go to the cinema"

"John will be pick me and her up afterwards"

[deactivated user]

You're not the only one. I'm a 52 year-old native English speaker, and "Her and I..." sounds more natural. Rules, schmools.

[ADarkSwan]

'Her' can never want anything, only she can want something. Her receives the action: I gave it to her. She does the action: she gave it away.

When you take yourself out of the way, it's very easy to see what is wrong with this sentence: "Her wanted to speak proper English."

[WanderingAbout]

but take out the "and I" and now see how it sounds!

[btownsb]

I'm pretty sure SHE's the one that wants to be friends.

[dillankibar]

welcome to the circle of endless friendzone :D

[MichelleSize]

Couldn't it also be in the past? She and I wanted to be friends.

[arcangelbl]

Was just checking on this myself. The answer is no. The nosotros preterite conjugation of querer is quisimos (irregular). http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugate/querer

[MichelleSize]

Oh yes, of course, thank you!

[Llarona]

Since the speaker is female, shouldn't this be "...ser amigas"?

[LeslieFielding]

I wrote " She and I, we want ( queremos) to be friends. So why is it not "we want" being a strict translation. Very confusing.

[roman2095]

I think that because you already have an explicitly stated subject (she and I) there is no implied subject.

[Marcomero]

why not? "she and me".

[CattleRustler]

In english, when you refer to yourself and another person together, you always put the other person first and yourself second using "I"

you dont say:

She and me / Me and her

you say:

She and I / Juana and I / He and I... etc

[rspreng]

The use of "I" is true when 'we' are the subject, but not when 'we' are the object. She and I want to be friends. John wants to be friends with her and me.

[rocko2012]

That is bad English grammar. I'm not sure why.

[AlexisLinguist]

As rspreng said, it is because "me" is an object pronoun, and is supposed to receive the action, not initiate it. "I" is a subject pronoun.

[rspreng]

We would not say "me want to have a Coke" ;)

[Gray_Roze]

Coke-y Monster might.

[Marcomero]

Thanks!

[hud214]

"Me and her want to be friends." is very colloquial English, but not classroom English. Duolingo usually prefers classroom English.

[mowskito]

ouch

[Chupacabrasmama]

Sounds like the friend zone

[EvgeniyChe3]

Welcome to friendzone, pal!)

[donkarleon22]

Y espero que esta amistad tenga beneficios