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Choose the best Spanish equivalent to the phrase.

Don't feel sorry for him.
sentirse = to feel sorry for

A. No me sientas mal por él.
B. No te sientas mal por él.
C. No nos sientas mal por él.
D. No tu sientas mal por él.

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B. No te sientas mal por él
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Answer:

B NO TE SIENTAS MAL POR ÉL

Step-by-step 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).

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