"She explained her culture to me."

Translation: Ela explicou sua cultura para mim.

[saharansari]

Just an odd question, is there anyway this sentence can be reconstructed with the use of 'comigo'?

[Paulenrique]

No :( in fact, comigo is com + mim. But, with another sentence its perfecty suitable. "Are you coming with me?" = "você vem comigo?". When you use explicar, the preposition used is "para", so you cant use comigo.

[saharansari]

Thank you for taking your time out to explain =)
And this makes sense, I was again getting lost with para mim, comigo and me again... I can't believe i have come this far, and this is what is still confusing me!

[Paulenrique]

No problem.... you gonna go through this easily ;)

[saharansari]

Thanks, hahah also I plan to learn French after this OH NO ahahah

[Paulenrique]

You should do that!! Its easier than Portuguese ;)

[saharansari]

I sure hope so!

[POLSKAdoBOJU]

Is "Ela me explicou..." possible? I guess the bigger question is when can we replace a prepositional phrase (para, por, a + pronoun) with a pronoun before the verb?

[Paulenrique]

"Ela me explicou..." is also right.

[POLSKAdoBOJU]

Sorry to dwell on this but the following sentence "Ela me explicou a sua cultura..." can it not have two possible meanings:
1 - She explained her culture to me (THE LOGIC MEANING)
2 - She explained me to her culture (It's nonsensical but grammatically correct?)

Maybe it doesn't work with "explicar" but with another verb like "mostrar?" "Ela me mostrou a sua cultura."

[Paulenrique]

Yes, it is ambiguous indeed! =)

[lguerreroa]

Is it neccesary to use "a" sua cultura a mim? why i'ts not ok to say only sua cultura a mim?

[Paulenrique]

Here both a sua cultura and sua cultura work, but it is better to use "explicar para".