Questions & Answers about Hoy solo me pongo un poco de pintalabios.
Why is it me pongo and not just pongo?
Because ponerse is very commonly used in Spanish for putting something on yourself.
- poner = to put
- ponerse = to put on oneself / to apply to oneself / to wear
So:
The me shows that the action is being done to yourself. In this sentence, the speaker is applying the lipstick to themselves, so me pongo is the natural form.
Why does the sentence start with Hoy?
Hoy means today, and Spanish often places time expressions near the beginning of the sentence.
So Hoy solo me pongo... is a very natural way to say:
Today, I only put on...
You could move it:
But the original version sounds very normal and slightly more natural if you want to set the scene first: today.
What does solo mean here, and why doesn’t it have an accent?