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Ese chico maleducado patea mi asiento y me distrae.

Ese chico maleducado patea mi asiento y me distrae.
That rude boy kicks my seat and distracts me.
From Lesson 207:Interruption (dejar de)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Ese chico maleducado patea mi asiento y me distrae.

Does maleducado mean the boy has a bad academic education?
No, this is a common false friend. In Spanish, maleducado refers to someone's manners, meaning rude, impolite, or ill-mannered. If you wanted to say someone is poorly educated in an academic sense, you would use a phrase like tiene poca educación académica.
How would I use the phrase dejar de from this lesson to say 'He doesn't stop kicking my seat'?
You would say Él no deja de patear mi asiento. The structure dejar de followed by an infinitive (like patear) is used to talk about stopping an action. Adding no before the conjugated verb makes it mean that the action doesn't stop.
What verb does patea come from, and is it related to the word for foot?
It comes from the verb patear (to kick). It is actually related to the word pata, which means an animal's leg or paw. Spanish uses a different word for a human foot (pie), but the verb for kicking still uses the root from pata.
Why is the pronoun me placed before the verb in me distrae?
In Spanish, object pronouns like me go immediately before a conjugated verb. You only attach them directly to the end of the verb if it is an infinitive (like distraerme), an -ing word (like distrayéndome), or a positive command (like ¡distráeme!).

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