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Spanish · Chapter 15 · Lesson 3 · Grammar primer

Prepositional pronouns

Prescribed by the AQA specification.

The short version

Con refuses to sit next to mí and ti

After a preposition only the first two pronouns break rank: mí with a written accent, ti with none at all, because tí does not exist. Then con refuses to stand beside them and fuses into one word: conmigo, contigo, consigo. Only con does this. Every other preposition keeps its distance: sin ti, para mí, de ti.

¿Vienes conmigo?

Are you coming with me?

Entre tú y yo, never entre ti y mí

A short list of prepositions rejects mí and ti and takes the subject pronouns instead: entre, según, excepto, menos, salvo, incluso, and hasta when it means 'even'. So it is entre tú y yo, según tú, todos menos yo. Everywhere else in the language it stays mí and ti, which is why this list is worth learning whole.

Entre tú y yo, no me cae bien.

Between you and me, I don't like him.

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