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- "Me voy a controlar."
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This is the first time I have noticed a verb used as reflexive in English & not in Spanish. It's usually the other way round.
They're both reflexive. "I am going to control myself" = "Me voy a controlar" or "Voy a controlarme."
Aha, of course. I forgot about the "me" that's separated from the verb - loses me hearts repeatedly. Silly me.
I keep doing the same as I have always been taught it sounds better to add the pronouns to the end of infinitives - heart lost!
Use back-ticks ( ` ) on both sides of the text. Back-ticks can be found (on most keyboards) on the key to the left of the 1/! key.
How did you explain and demonstrate that without the demonstrating text becoming formatted? I can't work that out. Haha
I have to find a way and get the courage to start to speak in Spanish to people. I feel like i will improve that way.
Me voy a controlar makes sense, and se voy a controlar does not.
I think you are confusing reflexives with object pronouns. Reflexives indicate that the action is happening to the actor, and se is not the reflexive for voy.
If you wanted to say I will control it/him/her, then that would be Lo/le/la voy a controlar.
Parece que el idioma español se quedo en el colegio porque la pronunciacion es malisima.
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It is, but reflexive pronouns are just object pronouns while the object is the same as the subject. Usually expressed with "-self" in English. me - me, myself; te - you, yourself, and so on. Just the 3rd persons are different: se - himself, herself, itself, themselves; lo, la - him, her, it; los, las - them.
"I will control myself" was marked wrong. Isn't this the exact translation as I am going to control myself?
- 892
Just like English has both a "will" future and a "going to" future, Spanish has both "futuro simple" and "futuro perifrástico". Although Duo is pretty lenient on swapping translations between the two tenses, I'd generally recommend keeping the translations straight:
- Me voy a controlar. - I am going to control myself.
- Me controlaré. - I will control myself.
But feel free to report the sentence.
Does anyone else hear the voice saying "Le voy a controlar" in the quick version of the speech?
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This sentence in Spanish seems wrong to me. "Me voy" is from the verb "irse", so to make clear that you are controlling yourself the sentence should read "Voy a controlarme". ??????
- 892
The verbs form a unit and it usually doesn't matter at which end you put the pronoun. "Voy a controlarme" might be easier to understand from the get-go, but that doesn't make "Me voy a controlar" wrong. It's still derived from controlarse, not irse.
This sentence leaves you with the impression that you are talking to yourself.
In many of these sentences which aren't written out, I get no audio. Please fix this, duo.
- 892
That's probably more an issue on your side. It can happen if your internet connection is wonky or your browser is busy. Repeatedly hitting the speaker button usually helps.
