No quiero perderme el documental sobre el mar.

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Breakdown of No quiero perderme el documental sobre el mar.

• sobre: about
• no querer: to not want
• el mar: the sea

Questions & Answers about No quiero perderme el documental sobre el mar.

Why is it perderme instead of just perder?

Because in Spanish, perderse algo often means to miss something.

So:

• perder = to lose
• perderse
  • a thing/event = to miss it

In this sentence, No quiero perderme el documental means I don’t want to miss the documentary.

Without me, perder el documental would sound more like to lose the documentary, not to miss watching it.

What does the me mean here?

The me refers to myself, but in this expression it is not translated word-for-word as myself in natural English.

In perderme el documental, the me is part of the structure perderse algo, which means to miss something.

So although me literally points to me, the natural meaning is simply:

• No quiero perderme el documental = I don’t want to miss the documentary

Why is me attached to perder?