Día 22

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¿En qué piensas? (What are you thinking of?)

In this commercial of a tv platform, they wonder what Rafa Nadal thinks before a game (¿En qué piensa Rafa Nadal antes de un partido?)

If you have a look to this verb, you can realize it's an irregular one (the form would be "¿En qué pensas?" if it was regular. The conjugation for present indicative is:

Yo pienso
Tú piensas
Él/Ella piensa
Nosotros/as pensamos
Vosotros/as pensáis
Ellos/as piensan

Have a look to the video!

The answers they give are:

- En no fallar

- En su rival

- En la afición

- En su equipo

1st. Can you guess the meaning of any of these sentences? If not, look up the words you don't understand.

Finally, it can be read "Rafa, nosotros pensamos en ti"

You might have guessed, the meaning of this is "Rafa, we think of you". Note that the preposition used with the verb to think is "en.
I find interesting the question (¿En qué piensa Rafa Nadal?) as it illustrates the common structure for Spanish questions. In case we need a preposition we would ALWAYS place it in the beginning of the sentence.

¿En qué piensas? What are you thinking of?

¿Con quién comes? Who are you eating with?

¿A qué juegas? What game do you play?

¿De dónde vienes? Where are you coming from?

The answers to these questions would be given placing the preposition after the verb (Example: "Nosotros pensamos en ti") or just starting with the preposition (Example "En ti")



2nd. Try to give an answer (including subject+verb) to the four previous questions. 

Lastly, if you look at answers 2 and 4 in the commercial you must have seen the word "su" Did you know that it meant? It's a possesive determiner. Here you are a chart summarizing possessive determiners in Spanish:



https://grammar.spanishintexas.org/determiners/possessive-determiners/


3rd. Copy this chart into your notebook or add two columns to the chart you already had with object pronouns.  

4th. Try to translate these sentences into English. Extra information is given in brackets for you to be able to identify whom we are talking about.

Mi camiseta es negra.

Su casa ( de Nina ) es grande.

Me gusta tu boca

Nuestra promesa es ir a Barcelona

Su pueblo (de ellos) es muy pequeño

Él baila con su amiga (de él)



In case you want to go further, this video gives you some more information on the use of possessive determiners when they go after the noun... (This book is mine = Este libro es mío)

¡Ánimo, guapo!