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It's interesting that a number of Romance languages, but notably not Spanish or French, prefix the subject pronoun (my) with a definite article. The-my-hovercr
by petecox 8y ago
It's interesting that a number of Romance languages, but notably not Spanish or French, prefix the subject pronoun (my) with a definite article.
The-my-hovercraft
- iopq 8y agoEs el mio is perfectly good Spanish
- pjmlp 8y agoYep, I guess we could change > Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas to > El mio aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas And > Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles to > L'aéroglisseur a moi est plein d'anguilles Spanish and French natives feel free to correct me. :) EDIT: Thanks for the corrections.
- dragonwriter 8y agoNot a native, but the Spanish version sounds wrong; I've heard em “el mio” used as a noun phrase , but not as a modifier for another noun, so “El mio aerodeslizador” sounds awkward. But maybe it's okay.
- grimborg 8y agoMi is pretty much "my", and "mío" is close to "mine". "Mi aerodeslizador" is correct, and "El mío aerodeslizador" is as awkward as "Mine hovecraft". Source: I'm a native Spanish speaker.
- YaxelPerez 8y agoIn Spanish I think "El aerodeslizador mío" would sound better.
- edgarvaldes 8y agoNot really. "Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas" is correct and the standard one. We can say "El mío está lleno de anguilas" when the noun (anguila) is implicit by context.
- lazyant 8y agoNo. "El mio X" or "El X mio" sounds terrible, esp. the first one I doubt is even proper, the latter can be used to stress "mine" (mio).
- GuiA 8y ago> L'aéroglisseur a moi est plein d'anguilles This sounds extremely stilted and unnatural. If you really wanted to emphasize it was your hovercraft, you’d say “mon aéroglisseur à moi est plein d’anguilles” but even then it sounds heavy handed.
- posterboy 8y agoThis there hovercraft of mine and oh ain't I speaking a fancy francy.
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