Nada más pelar el kiwi, lo corté y lo mezclé con unas fresas.

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Breakdown of Nada más pelar el kiwi, lo corté y lo mezclé con unas fresas.

• con: with
• y: and
• .: period (punctuation mark)

Questions & Answers about Nada más pelar el kiwi, lo corté y lo mezclé con unas fresas.

What does nada más mean here? Is it literally nothing more?

In this sentence, nada más + infinitive is an idiomatic time expression. It means as soon as... or right after....

So:

Nada más pelar el kiwi = As soon as I peeled the kiwi / Right after peeling the kiwi

On its own, nada más can mean nothing else or no more, but in this structure it marks immediate sequence in time.

Why is pelar in the infinitive instead of pelé?

Because after nada más, Spanish often uses the infinitive to introduce an action that happened immediately before the main action.

So the pattern is:

nada más + infinitive

Examples:

• Nada más llegar, me llamó. = As soon as he arrived, he called me.
• Nada más terminar, salimos. = As soon as we finished, we left.

Here, pelar stays in the infinitive because the main verb that carries the past tense is corté.

Who is understood as the subject of pelar?

The subject is understood to be the same as the subject of the main verbs: yo.

So the sentence is understood as:

Nada más pelar el kiwi, yo lo corté y yo lo mezclé...

Spanish often leaves subjects unstated when they are clear from the verb forms. Since corté and mezclé are clearly I forms, we understand that I also did the peeling.