Word
Tu comentario me dio una mala impresión.
Meaning
Your comment gave me a bad impression.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Tu comentario me dio una mala impresión.
Why is it tu and not tú?
Because tu without an accent is a possessive adjective meaning your.
- tu comentario = your comment
- tú with an accent is the subject pronoun you
So:
- Tu comentario... = Your comment...
- Tú comentas... = You comment...
This is a very common spelling distinction in Spanish.
Why is there a me in me dio?
Here, me means to me. It is an indirect object pronoun.
So Tu comentario me dio una mala impresión literally works like:
- Tu comentario = your comment
- me dio = gave me
- una mala impresión = a bad impression
Very literally: Your comment gave me a bad impression.
In natural English, we would usually say Your comment gave me a bad impression or Your comment left me with a bad impression.
Why does Spanish say gave me a bad impression instead of something more direct like was bad?