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T1 Los equivalentes del «se» impersonal en inglés
A1 Losada Durán, José Ramón
AB This article is an attempt to find the equivalents of the Spanishimpersonal se in English. The function and meaning of this pronoun isbriefly discussed so that this use of se may be distinguished from otheruses of the same pronominal form. The sentences containing this kindof se occur in the 3rd person singular only. The idea expressed in themis action carried out in relation to a human entity by an unmentionedhuman agent. Impersonal se points to the logical subject of the sentence.The whole secret in dealing with these constructions lies in knowingwhat referent this impersonal se is pointing to. This must be inferredfrom the contextual situations. This pronoun has no parallels in English.It covers concepts of singular and plural, masculine and femenine. Sothere is a wide range of possible translations for impersonal se inEnglish. It is usually expressed in English by nouns, personal pronounswith personal reference. They are generic in meaning but in a contextualsituation their reference may be narrowed down to only one person orto a specific group of them.
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