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Originally Posted by kikibay92
So I'm taking Spanish this semester and let me tell you, Spanish is a beautiful language but it completely freaks me out with its grammar and vocabularies.
I was just flipping my textbook and ran into this confusion between le and el.
According to the book, "el es" means he is. But google translator and spanishdict say "el" is "the"? But what about "le"?
doesn't "el es" actually mean "The is"? And "le es" means "he is"?
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''le'' is used prior to an action...I don't know the right term for this kind of word, but spanish is very correct. There are rules for all this kind of usage...it's just a matter of learning the rules and you'll be set.
''le voy a pegar a ese cabron(a)''. I'm gonna hit that asshole (m or f). 'le' may also follow the word implying action as in 'voy a pegar-le a ese cabron'. Same as above but note how 'le' became part of pegar. Pegar in this case is not really a verb (that would be 'voy' (gonna)...in which case as in english 'hit/pegar' is not really the verb in this instance). Again, pegar becomes a sort of word that has its proper descriptive in grammar, but I can't recall what that is.
'le' also means the action to be performed is on someone/something if that helps any...in this case the asshole is getting the beat down. It would be wrong to just say 'voy a pegar a ese cabron' which takes on a whole different meaning (mostly because pegar has other definitions.
This example is not the best I admit, since 'voy a golpear a ese cabron' does not use 'le' in it and means exactly the same as above.