Word
Mi amiga dice que el mejor momento de la boda fue el primer beso de la pareja.
Meaning
My friend says that the best moment of the wedding was the couple’s first kiss.
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Breakdown of Mi amiga dice que el mejor momento de la boda fue el primer beso de la pareja.
ser
to be
mi
my
la amiga
the friend
de
of
Questions & Answers about Mi amiga dice que el mejor momento de la boda fue el primer beso de la pareja.
Why is it mi amiga and not mi amigo or mi amiga/o?
Amiga is the feminine form of amigo. Spanish forces you to mark grammatical gender:
- mi amiga = my (female) friend
- mi amigo = my (male) friend
Unlike English, you can’t keep it neutral with just friend. You choose amiga or amigo based on the friend’s gender (or how the speaker chooses to refer to them).
You’ll sometimes see inclusive forms like amigx, amig@, amigue in informal or activist contexts, but they’re not standard and wouldn’t normally appear in a basic example sentence.
Why isn’t there a subject pronoun like ella? Why not Mi amiga ella dice…?
In Spanish, subject pronouns (yo, tú, él, ella, etc.) are usually dropped because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.
- Mi amiga dice… already tells you “my friend (she) says…”.
- Ella dice… would be used if you really wanted to emphasize she (as opposed to someone else).
Mi amiga ella dice… is normally redundant and sounds unnatural in standard Spanish, unless it’s very marked, almost “My friend, she says…” for special emphasis in spoken language.
Is que in dice que the same as “that” in English? Can I drop it like in English?