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Phrase · 🗣️ Telling an anecdote

¿Sabes qué me pasó ayer?

Do you know what happened to me yesterday?

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Why every word is where it is

¿Sabesverbdo you knowsaber · present · 2nd sing.qué1pronounwhatmeobject pronounme, to meyo · 1st sing.pasó2verbhappenedpasar · past · 3rd sing.ayeradverbyesterday?
  • Sabes → qué: object clause
  • me → pasó: to whom
  • pasó → ayer: when

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    qué keeps its accent in an indirect question. Questions and negation →
  2. 2
    me pasó = happened to me: preterite of pasar. Preterite I: regular verbs, ser/ir, dar, ver →