missing ses

Todd M.B1Kwiziq community member

missing ses

Do you have se lessons for things like, se me hace, no se te quita, ya no se te nota mucho acento, ya no se les atiende, se percate.  I ask because none of these seem to find homes in the lessons, in order to practice and understand. I mean they are not accidental. Thanks

Asked 3 months ago
InmaKwiziq team memberCorrect answer

Hola Todd

We have a lesson for the "dativo de interés" that shows some of these examples you mention - the dativo doesn't always need to be used with a pronominal verb (that's where the "se" comes from though. The different examples that you wrote have slightly different nuances but we'd have to see all these as completed sentences and more context to see what the dativo is really conveying. For example, in your full sentence:

Ya no se te nota mucho acento. 

Your accent is hardly noticeable now.

We have "notarse" as a pronominal verb meaning "to be noticeable" and "te" as a dativo (indirect object pronoun) indicating a "from you". 

If we make a sentence with "se me hace", like:

Se me hace muy largo el viaje a Madrid.

I find the journey to Madrid really long.

Here we have "hacerse largo" (to feel long) as pronominal and then "me" indicating that I am the person "affected by this" with the form of a dativo (indirect object pronoun).

Sorry we have no lesson that includes all cases of se + dativo, but this's been noted for future articles. 

We have an article about different uses of "se" that may be of interest too. 

Gracias y un cordial saludo

Inma

Todd M.B1Kwiziq community member

Thanks, very helpful. 

missing ses

Do you have se lessons for things like, se me hace, no se te quita, ya no se te nota mucho acento, ya no se les atiende, se percate.  I ask because none of these seem to find homes in the lessons, in order to practice and understand. I mean they are not accidental. Thanks

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