{"id":10266,"date":"2022-06-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2022-06-10T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:15:16","slug":"cae-como-un-profesional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/cae-como-un-profesional\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Drop Like a Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever heard the term \u201cpro-drop\u201d? It stands for \u201cpronoun-drop\u201d and it\u2019s a grammatical concept that some languages have. Pro-drop might seem like something really small, but learning about it and how to use it will make you feel and sound a little more like a hablante nativo<\/a>. Sigue leyendo para saberlo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is \u201cpro-drop\u201d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pro-drop is where you drop the pronoun in a sentence. You might be thinking, \u201cHow can you do that? Then you wouldn\u2019t know who is doing the action!\u201d And you\u2019re right! There are certain times when you will need a pronoun to help you. However, some languages, like Spanish, don\u2019t need a pronoun all the time. English, on the other hand, always needs a pronoun, so pro-drop doesn\u2019t happen in English. Let\u2019s take a look at what happens in a sentence in English and Spanish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"CONVERSA
Leer m\u00e1s<\/strong>V\u00eddeo: Falsos amigos espa\u00f1ol-ingl\u00e9s<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>

E<\/span> hablar espa\u00f1ol.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yo<\/span> hablo espa\u00f1ol.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"CONVERSA
Leer m\u00e1s<\/strong>Actividad en l\u00ednea: Conjugar verbos espa\u00f1oles en presente<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>

In both of these sentences, there is a pronoun. In English, it\u2019s E<\/em>, and in Spanish, it\u2019s yo. <\/em>Sin embargo, en espa\u00f1ol, tambi\u00e9n podr\u00eda escribir la frase de esta manera:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hablo espa\u00f1ol.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this sentence, there isn\u2019t a \u201cyo\u201d, but the sentence is still completely grammatically correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why doesn\u2019t Spanish always need to include pronouns?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Recuerda cuando aprendiste la conjugaci\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol. \u00bfRecuerdas cu\u00e1ntas formas hay en cada tiempo? \u00a1Hay 6! En espa\u00f1ol, como hay tantos tipos de conjugaci\u00f3n, a diferencia de los 2 que hay en ingl\u00e9s, los verbos muestran claramente qui\u00e9n realiza la acci\u00f3n. Por lo tanto, la terminaci\u00f3n del verbo es suficiente para saber qui\u00e9n realiza la acci\u00f3n. Echa un vistazo a estas frases. \u00bfPuedes decir qui\u00e9n realiza cada acci\u00f3n?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comprcomo<\/span> mucha ropa.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hacemos<\/span> la tarea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viv\u00eds<\/span> en Valencia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los temas para ellos son t\u00fa<\/em>, nosotros<\/em>y vosotros<\/em>, and you can tell just based on the endings! There\u2019s no need to include the subject pronoun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bfCu\u00e1ndo se incluyen los pronombres en espa\u00f1ol?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, it\u2019s not clear who is doing the action. This is because \u00e9l, ella <\/em>y usted <\/em>tienen todos la misma conjugaci\u00f3n, y ellos, ellas <\/em>y vosotros <\/em>utilizan la misma conjugaci\u00f3n. Por eso, a veces es necesario incluir el pronombre para aclarar qui\u00e9n realiza la acci\u00f3n. Por ejemplo, en la siguiente frase, no est\u00e1 claro qui\u00e9n es el sujeto:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come a la 11 de la ma\u00f1ana.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless you already established who you\u2019re talking about, you\u2019ll probably need to include the subject so it\u2019s clear who is eating at 11:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ella come a la 11 de la ma\u00f1ana.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, it\u2019s clear that we\u2019re talking about su<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adem\u00e1s, los hablantes nativos tambi\u00e9n incluir\u00e1n pronombres para enfatizar qui\u00e9n est\u00e1 realizando una acci\u00f3n. Aunque podr\u00edas decir hablo espa\u00f1ol<\/em>, if someone asks who in the room speaks Spanish, you might want to emphasize \u201cyo<\/span> hablo espa\u00f1ol\u201d<\/em> a <\/em>a\u00f1ade \u00e9nfasis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope this helped you see that in Spanish, unlike English, you don\u2019t need to use a pronoun every single time. As you\u2019re learning, it\u2019s okay to use pronouns more often to help you conjugate! Once you get the hang of conjugation, try out pro-drop to take your Spanish to the next level.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever heard the term \u201cpro-drop\u201d? It stands for \u201cpronoun-drop\u201d and it\u2019s a grammatical concept that some languages have. Pro-drop might seem like something really small, but learning about it and how to use it will make you feel and sound a little more like a native speaker. Keep reading to learn about it. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,30,87,89,97,24],"tags":[31,48,322,321,81,63],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a1","category-blog","category-grammar","category-language","category-learning","category-spanish","category-vocabulary","tag-grammar","tag-learn-spanish","tag-pro-drop","tag-pronouns","tag-spanish-grammar","tag-spanish-online"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Portadas-blog-2-4.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}