¡Hola! I am Melany and I help language learners speak Argentine Spanish. I primarily teach Argentine slang and idioms, how to sound more natural and to speak Spanish with confidence.
🍕"Como" vs "ME como" Explained
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¡Hola, Reader! Have you got doubts about when to use comer or comerse?🍕🤔 See an example below: Normalmente no como dulces, pero ayer me comí un alfajor.
What's the reason to use "comerse" instead of "comer"? Take a look at the amount (of food, in this case) and ask yourself these 2 questions:
While "dulces" doesn't refer to any specific amount of sweets, "un alfajor" refers to one complete unit. 🤓In Spanish, we use the reflexive (comerse, beberse, tomarse, fumarse, comprarse, leerse) when speaking of a specific and complete unit. See more examples:
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¡Hola! I am Melany and I help language learners speak Argentine Spanish. I primarily teach Argentine slang and idioms, how to sound more natural and to speak Spanish with confidence.
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