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Jeff

Dejar plantado(a):

de·jar plan·ta·do(a)  Verb

1.       to stand up, let down, run out on, walk out on, jilt, leave in the lurch; Synonyms: dar poste a, dejar burlado, dejar esperando, plantar, dar plancha a, dar un plantón a, tirar la plancha a, tirar plancha a

In the example (¿Se te olvidó y lo dejaste plantado?) from the last sentence in the expansion section, the verb “dejar” is conjugated into the Pretérito perfecto simple - past perfect simple tense of the inductive mood.

Otros ejemplos: You have stood me up other times! (¡Me has dejado plantado otras veces!). Where dejar is in the Pretérito perfecto compuesto - past perfect compound tense of the inductive mood.

A Question:

Hola todos, ¿cómo estan?

After thinking about the following sentence all morning, I have become more confused. In the last sentence of the expansion section (¿Se te olvidó y lo dejaste plantado?) the translation for the sentence into English is stated as (Did he forget and ditch you?)

Yet the literal translation is “Himself  to you  he forgot  and  he  you left  planted.”  Where the verb dejar is conjugated into the second person (informal) of the past perfect tense. Which seems to suggest that the person being spoken to in this sentence is the one that actually performed the “forgetting” and the “standing up.” Which would suggest the translation is “Did you forget him and stand him up?” What am I missing here?

Thanks, Jeff

Nice catch! I agree with your translation. 

¿Se te olvidó?  Literally:  Did it forget itself to you? or Did you forget?

¿Se me olvidó?  Did I forget?

¿Se le olvidó?  Did he/she/you (formal) forget?

This construction, olvidarsele a alguien, expresses unplanned occurrences. It's a bit like the English passive in that it takes the heat off the subject.

The second part of the sentence is, I think, just as you translated:

¿lo dejaste plantado?  Did you stand him up?

so:  ¿Se te olvidó y lo dejaste plantado?  Did you forget and stand him up?

Thanks, ………… this morning I kept trying it make sense of it in the way it was translated in the lesson, and I just couldn’t. I admit that the reflexive just kills me, though. So I imagined I was missing something.

Of course my other answer for not understanding was, I imagined I was not simply “going crazy” but I had actually “arrived there.” Jajaja.

Thanks again,

Jeff (jgrob)

to me my head it hurts itself. :-)

Why is the reflexive stuff so different from English?

Pain, pain, pain. Tengo dolor de cabeza.

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