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
Hola Nicole
There are prepositional verbs that use a specific preposition; in this case "fiarse de alguien" is always used with "de". There isn't a logical explanation for it, to be honest. We need to memorise them. Fiarse en algo and fiarse a algo would be incorrect. If you want to say something like don't trust "something" we'd probably say:
No te fíes de eso.
Don't trust that.
(eso being whatever someone just said, for example)
No te fíes de lo que ha dicho Marta.
(Don't trust what Marta said.)
Here's a list with some useful prepositional verbs if you want to have a look.
Saludos
Inma
Hola Inma,
Thank you so much for your rapid response and explaining this.
Have a great day!
Nicole
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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