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Spanish (Latin America)

### Emphasizing completeness

In Spanish, you will often see indirect object pronouns (**me**, **te**, **le**, **nos**, **les**) added to sentences where they aren't strictly necessary. When the pronoun matches the subject of the sentence, it emphasizes the completeness of the action—often translating to doing something "up" or "down" in English.

This is extremely common with verbs of consumption to emphasize eating an *entire* portion, such as with **devorar** (to devour) or **engullir** (to gobble down).

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### Being affected by an action

You can also use these pronouns to show who is emotionally or physically affected by an action, known as the *dative of interest*.

If someone else performs the action, the pronoun indicates who suffered or benefited from it. It often replaces possessive adjectives (like "my" or "his"). For example, instead of saying someone ate "my" hamburger, Spanish speakers often say they ate the hamburger "on me".

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When the subject performs the action for their own benefit, the pronoun shows that they did it for themselves.

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This structure is also the standard way to talk about body parts experiencing pain or sensations. You use the indirect object pronoun to show *who* the body part belongs to, rather than using a possessive word like "mi".

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The affective dative (me, te, le, nos, les)

adjective

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Question	Answer
to devour	devorar
whole	entero
It is two o'clock and I already devoured the whole hamburger!	¡Son las dos y ya me devoré la hamburguesa entera!
to gobble down	engullir
the sandwich	el sándwich
You gobbled down the sandwich very fast!	¡Te engulliste el sándwich muy rápido!
the bite	el bocado
voracious	voraz
We devoured every bite because we had a voracious hunger.	Nos devoramos cada bocado porque tuvimos un hambre voraz.
the indigestion	la indigestión
We ate up the whole sandwich and we had terrible indigestion.	Nos comimos el sándwich entero y tuvimos una indigestión terrible.
the belly	la panza
My belly hurts because I gobbled down the hamburger.	Me duele la panza porque me engullí la hamburguesa.
the glutton	el glotón
The glutton devoured my whole hamburger!	¡El glotón me devoró la hamburguesa entera!
You had a voracious hunger and you gobbled down the last bite.	Tuviste un hambre voraz y te engulliste el último bocado.
The glutton had terrible indigestion and his belly hurt.	El glotón tuvo una indigestión terrible y le dolió la panza.
I made the whole sandwich for myself because I had a voracious hunger.	Me hice el sándwich entero porque tuve un hambre voraz.
They had terrible indigestion and their bellies hurt.	Tuvieron una indigestión terrible y les dolió la panza.