La profesora nos pidió una redacción sobre un viaje importante para nosotras.

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Breakdown of La profesora nos pidió una redacción sobre un viaje importante para nosotras.

• una: a
• importante: important
• para: for

Questions & Answers about La profesora nos pidió una redacción sobre un viaje importante para nosotras.

What does nos mean in nos pidió?

Nos is the indirect object pronoun meaning to us.

So La profesora nos pidió... literally works like:

• La profesora = the teacher
• nos = to us
• pidió = asked / requested
• una redacción = a composition / essay

A very literal breakdown would be The teacher asked us for a composition or The teacher assigned us a composition.

With pedir, Spanish often uses this pattern:

• alguien pide algo a alguien
• someone asks someone for something

In the sentence, the a alguien part is represented by the pronoun nos.

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Why is it pidió and not pedía?

Pidió is the preterite, which is used for a completed action in the past.

Here, the sentence is referring to one specific completed event: the teacher asked for the composition.

• pidió = she asked
• pedía = she was asking / used to ask / would ask

So:

• La profesora nos pidió... = the teacher asked us...
• La profesora nos pedía... would suggest a repeated action, a background action, or a more ongoing past situation.

In this sentence, pidió is the natural choice because it sounds like a single classroom instruction that happened once.

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