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By Gerald Erichsen, About.com Guide to Spanish Language since 1998

Where do I put the pronoun?

Monday March 5, 2007
Sometimes there's more than one way to say something correctly. For example, a fairly simple sentence as "Lo quiero comprar" (I want to buy it) can also be said as "Quiero comprarlo." The final word in the last sentence is an example of an infinitive with an attached pronoun, making a word, in this case comprarlo, that you won't find in any dictionary (nor, alas, in most spell checkers). Learn more...

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