http://fluentin6months.com Learn Spanish quickly...while having fun! Mon, 25 May 2009 12:12:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://fluentin6months.com/2008/09/el-dativo-2-the-dative-2/ http://fluentin6months.com/2008/09/el-dativo-2-the-dative-2/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:44:41 +0000 David http://fluentin6months.com/?p=920 A number of verbs other than gustarand encantar use the dative construction. These verbs include apasionar -- "to be passionate about," antojarse -- "to feel like," arrugar -- "to be wrinkled,"quedar -- "to suit, to fit, or to be left", sobrar -- "to be left,"caber -- "to fit," doler -- "to be hurtful," and faltar -- "to be lacking." As with gustar, the grammatical subject and object are the reverse of what you would expect:....

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