No quiero frustrarme si el wifi sigue fallando.

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Breakdown of No quiero frustrarme si el wifi sigue fallando.

• querer: to want
• seguir: to keep (doing something)
• no: not

Questions & Answers about No quiero frustrarme si el wifi sigue fallando.

Why is it frustrarme and not just frustrar?

Because Spanish often uses the reflexive form to express becoming an emotional state.

• frustrar = to frustrate someone/something
• frustrarse = to get frustrated / become frustrated

So No quiero frustrarme means I don’t want to get frustrated.

Literally, it looks like to frustrate myself, but in natural English it is usually just to get frustrated.

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Why is the me attached to frustrar?

Because after a conjugated verb like quiero, Spanish can attach a pronoun to the infinitive.

• No quiero frustrarme
• No me quiero frustrar

Both are correct and mean the same thing.

This is very common with verbs like querer, poder, deber, ir a, etc.

Examples:

• Quiero acostarme
• Me quiero acostar

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Why do we use quiero + infinitive here?