Word
Mi felicidad aumenta cuando mis amigos confían en mí y me apoyan.
Meaning
My happiness increases when my friends trust me and support me.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Breakdown of Mi felicidad aumenta cuando mis amigos confían en mí y me apoyan.
mi
my
el amigo
the friend
y
and
me
me
Questions & Answers about Mi felicidad aumenta cuando mis amigos confían en mí y me apoyan.
Why is it mi (without accent) at the beginning but mí (with accent) later in the sentence?
In Spanish, mi and mí are two different words:
mi (no accent) = my. It’s a possessive adjective used before a noun:
- mi felicidad = my happiness
- mi casa = my house
mí (with accent) = me (after a preposition). It’s a stressed pronoun and usually appears after prepositions like a, de, para, por, en, sin, etc.:
- en mí = in me
- para mí = for me
- de mí = about me / from me
So in Mi felicidad aumenta, mi describes the noun felicidad.
In confían en mí, mí is the object of the preposition en.
Why is the verb aumenta (3rd person singular) and not aumento (1st person), if I am the one who is happier?