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Hello,

In reading one of your  lessons on Prepositions, I saw "fiarse de" i.e: fiarse de algo,  Roberto, etc.

I was surprised that "de" is used here and not "a" for a person, or "en".

1) Could you help me understand why "de" is used here?

and:

2) Can these forms be used and if so, what would they mean? and if not, why not?

fiarse en algo

fiarse a algo

Thank you,

Nicole

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You have this sentence in the lesson:

Their endings are the same as other regular -er verbs in El Presente de Subjuntivo.

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Hola!

Quiero saber si los personas mexicano dicen "j" para "ll" y "y" o es un "y" sonido? Vivo en California y quiero sonar mas natural para mi comunidad. Gracias por todo!

(Sorry if my Spanish is broken, I just restarted learning)

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Hello all,

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Why is quedarse used here and not quedar? I went back to the lesson that deals with the differences and therein both are used with an adjective or participle to express the result of an action (=quedar) or change (=quedarse). For quedar + adjective, it is also written that the meaning is rather "to end up", and I feel like it fits well in the sentence above: they ended up perplexed due to what Beru did. 

Could both be correct in this context?

Thanks!

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