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Sentence

Lo hice para él.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

I did it for him.

Notes

En este ejemplo, la preposición para nos indica que él es el destinatario. Si, en lugar de para, escribimos la preposición por, cambiaría el significado y expresaría una causa (lo hice por él = lo hice porque era lo mejor para él o lo hice porque él lo quería, etc.)



Analysis


lo
     1. pron. accusative of él, ello, and usted (when referring to a man); him, it, you (formal)
     2. pron. impersonal neuter pronoun (clitic form of ello); it, that
     3. art. neuter definite article used to make abstract nouns from adjectives; the
hice
     1. v. first-person singular preterite indicative of hacer
     hacer
          1. v. to do
          2. v. to make (something)
          3. v. to make (e.g. someone do something or feel a certain way.)
          4. v. to be
          5. v. to go (to release or excrete (urine, excrement))
          6. v. (ambitransitive, optionally with de) to play (a part in a play)
          7. v. to become; to get
          8. v. to pretend being, play
          9. v. to play the fool
          10. v. to prep, adorn, do (a body part)
          11. v. to get used to (chiefly in idioms)
          12. v. to arrive (said of a certain time), be now
          13. n-m. task, action
para
     1. prep. for, to (expressing a recipient)
     2. prep. to, in order to, so, for (expressing the intended purpose of an action)
     3. prep. by, due, due on, due by (expressing a deadline)
     4. prep. for (expressing contrast from what is expected)
     5. prep. for, to, in one's opinion, as far as one is concerned (expressing an opinion, perception or perspective)
     6. prep. for (expressing using one's efforts for a group or an authority figure such as a sports team or a company/boss)
     7. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of parir
     parar
          1. v. to stop, halt
          2. v. to put up, stand up
          3. v. to lift, raise
          4. v. to stand up
          5. v. to situate oneself
          6. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, Chile) see pararlas
él
     1. pron. he, him, masculine personal third person subject and disjunctive pronoun (used as a subject and after prepositions)
     2. pron. it, masculine non-personal third-person subject and disjunctive pronoun (used as a subject and after prepositions to refer to masculine nouns)




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