Word
Después de trotar, me duele el tobillo izquierdo y masajeo el hombro con crema.
Meaning
After jogging, my left ankle hurts and I massage my shoulder with cream.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Después de trotar, me duele el tobillo izquierdo y masajeo el hombro con crema.
yo
I
con
with
y
and
después de
after
Questions & Answers about Después de trotar, me duele el tobillo izquierdo y masajeo el hombro con crema.
Why is it Después de trotar and not Después trotar?
In Spanish, when you want to express “after” doing something, you use Después de + infinitive. The preposition de is mandatory before the infinitive. You wouldn’t say Después trotar. If you had a noun instead of a verb, de would contract with el (masculine singular) to del, as in después del partido.
How do you pronounce después and trotar, and where is the stress?
Después is stressed on the last syllable (de-spu-ÉS), and the accent on ú marks that. Trotar is also stressed on the last syllable (tro-TAR); infinitives ending in -ar, -er, -ir carry their natural stress on the final syllable when there’s no written accent.
Why is it me duele el tobillo and not duele me el tobillo?
The verb doler works like gustar: the thing that hurts (el tobillo) is the subject, and the person feeling it is an indirect object. You place the indirect object pronoun (me, te, le, etc.) before the verb, then conjugate doler to agree with the subject. So me duele el tobillo literally means “the ankle hurts me.” Standard Spanish does not allow duele me in this construction.
Why does the adjective izquierdo come after , and why is it instead of ?