Te advierto del peligro.

to you

Breakdown of Te advierto del peligro.

• el peligro: the danger
• del: about the
• advertir: to warn

Questions & Answers about Te advierto del peligro.

What is the basic structure of Te advierto del peligro?

A helpful word-by-word breakdown is:

• te = you
• advierto = I warn
• del peligro = of/about the danger

So the structure is basically:

[object pronoun] + [verb] + [prepositional phrase]

This is normal in Spanish. Object pronouns like te usually come before a conjugated verb.

What exactly is te here?

Te is the unstressed object pronoun for tú. It refers to the person being warned: you.

If you used a name instead of a pronoun, you would normally say:

• Advierto a Marta del peligro.

But when Spanish uses the pronoun te, it does not keep the a:

• Te advierto del peligro.

For a beginner, the easiest way to understand te here is simply as you.

Why is it advierto?