Question

Choose the best Spanish equivalent to the phrase.

Answer 1

Answer:

B NO TE SIENTAS MAL POR ÉL

Explanation:

The correct answer is: B. No te sientas mal por él because it is the only one in which the CONJUGATED VERB (sentir = to feel) matches with the OBJECT PRONOUN.

Here there are some things that we need to remember at the moment of producing sentences in Spanish:

• We ALWAYS need a CONJUGATED VERB to have a complete sentence.

In our exercise all the 4 options meet this characteristic; all of them have the same conjugated verb

• The verb “SENTIRSE (mal)” (To feel (sorry) ) is a REFLEXIVE VERB, which means that ALWAYS have to be accompanied by a OBJECT PRONOUN, which is the syntactical particle that shows the subject. This means that the person that is feeling sorry could be shown by a pronoun, or a substantive and ALSO by the OBJECT PRONOUN.

• The CONJUGATED VERB has to match in NUMBER with the SUBJECT and, in this kind of verbs, also with the object pronoun.

Now, here we have the mistaken ones:

A No ME sientas mal por él: Here “ME” (1st person of singular) doesn’t match with the verb “SIENTAS” (2nd person of singular).

C No NOS sientas mal por él: Here “NOS” (1st person of plural) doesn’t match with the verb “SIENTAS (2nd person of singular)

D No TU sientas mal por él: Here we don’t even have an object pronoun, instead we have the personal pronoun “TU” (2nd person of singular).

Answer 2

B. No te sientas mal por él