Word
No pierdas a ese seguidor.
Meaning
Don't lose that follower.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about No pierdas a ese seguidor.
Why is the command no pierdas instead of no pierdes?
To tell someone NOT to do something informally (a negative tú command), you cannot just put no in front of the normal present tense. For an -er verb like perder, you swap the ending to -as. Also, perder has a stem change where the e becomes ie, which is kept in this command form. That gives us no pierdas.
Why is there an a before ese seguidor?
This is the personal a. In Spanish, when the direct object of a verb is a specific person, you must put an a right before it. Since a follower is a person you are acting upon, you need the a.
Why use ese instead of eso in this sentence?