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A mi profesora le llena de orgullo ver nuestro progreso al final del semestre.
Meaning
My teacher feels proud seeing our progress at the end of the semester.
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Breakdown of A mi profesora le llena de orgullo ver nuestro progreso al final del semestre.
mi
my
a
to
ver
to see
nuestro
our
Questions & Answers about A mi profesora le llena de orgullo ver nuestro progreso al final del semestre.
Why does the sentence use both A mi profesora and le? Aren’t they both to my teacher?
Yes — they both refer to the same person, and that is very normal in Spanish.
This is called indirect object doubling. In Spanish, when the indirect object is a person, it is very common to include:
- the indirect object pronoun: le
- and the full phrase: a mi profesora
So:
- A mi profesora = to my teacher
- le = to her
The sentence could be understood literally as:
To my teacher, seeing our progress fills her with pride.
The le is not optional here in natural Spanish. It sounds much more normal with it.
What exactly is le llena de orgullo doing here?