Spelling of Stacked Weak Pronouns
Spell a pronoun cluster as a unit, placing its apostrophe according to the whole combination.
How It Works
Pronouns keep a conventional order, but their written forms change beside vowels and other pronouns. Before a consonant, me + el becomes me'l; before a vowel, the cluster appears as me l’: me l'envia. The apostrophe is placed as far to the right as the established combination permits.
When a cluster ends in en, the neighboring vowel can move the visible apostrophe: me'n dona but me n'envia. The same grammatical combination is present in both. After a vowel-final command, dona-me'n keeps a hyphen before me and an apostrophe before n. Do not normalize these three strings to one spelling, and do not add a second apostrophe merely because the group contains two pronouns.
Examples (3)
- Me'n dona dos.
She gives me two of them.
- Me n'envia tres.
She sends me three of them.
- Dona-me'n quatre.
Give me four of them.
How It Connects
Learn This First
Spell a complete pronoun cluster before applying more complex attached forms. Identify the recipient and partitive object before varying cluster spelling.
Related Patterns
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