Word
No le des la contraseña a nadie.
Meaning
Don't give the password to anyone.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of No le des la contraseña a nadie.
no
no, not
a
to
dar
to give
le
to him / to her / to you (formal)
Questions & Answers about No le des la contraseña a nadie.
Why is the verb des here instead of das or da?
When telling someone not to do something (a negative command), Spanish uses a different verb form than it does for statements or positive commands. For the informal "you" (tú), negative commands are built using a form called the present subjunctive. Because dar (to give) is an irregular verb, its negative command form becomes no des (don't give).
Can I attach le to the end of the verb, like no desle?
Why is there a le in this sentence if we already say a nadie?
This is a common Spanish quirk called a "redundant pronoun." Even though a nadie clearly states who shouldn't receive the password, Spanish still requires the indirect object pronoun le before the verb to point to that person. It is basically saying, "Don't to-them give the password to anyone."
Why does the sentence use both no and nadie? Doesn't that mean "Don't give the password to nobody"?