Wondering what exactly something means...

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Andrés  #17625  Fri, 25 May 07 04:02 AM
"No quiero yo."

Does this mean, "I don't love."? "I don't want."?

How do you tell if they mean want or love? Just context and situation? That can be sticky.
  
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Jhumka  #17626  Fri, 25 May 07 07:41 AM
"Yo no quiero" normally means "I dont want" ,"No quiero" is sufficient ,but you may write "yo"

If you want to say "I dont love you" then you have to say "no te amo"
  
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Andrés  #17627  Fri, 25 May 07 08:51 AM
Oh. Well a native speaker said that to me and I was trying to figure out what exactly she meant. Kinda threw me off since yo was at the end but I guess it's the same as yo at the start? First time I heard it used that way is all.
  
Anonymous  #17642  Sat, 26 May 07 06:14 PM

Hello! Were you talking about someone else? Because the use of "yo" at the end could happen in a situation like the folllowing: you want to do something with someone and this person doesn't want. You get angry, and after a while, he/she says 'OK, I will do it'. But then, you don't feel like doing it any more, so you say something like "now it's me who doesn't want to do it". This it would be something like "Ahora soy yo la que no quiere hacerlo" or just "ahora no quiero yo" (with "yo" at the end).

 

  
Anonymous  #17643  Sat, 26 May 07 06:17 PM
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Hello! Were you talking about someone else? Because the use of "yo" at the end could happen in a situation like the following: you want to do something with someone and this person doesn't want. You get angry, and after a while, he/she says 'OK, I will do it'. But then, you don't feel like doing it any more, so you say something like "now it's me who doesn't want to do it". This would be something like "Ahora soy yo la que no quiere hacerlo" or just "ahora no quiero yo" (with "yo" at the end).

 

Sorry for the spelling mistakes, now I think it's OK.

  
Andrés  #17650  Sun, 27 May 07 08:24 AM
Okay, great. It makes perfect sense now!
  
Anonymous  #17696  Fri, 01 Jun 07 12:19 PM

"no quiero yo" means: I don't want, but nobody says it that way. We say 'no quiero', or 'yo no quiero'. 'no quiero yo' is correct, anyway.

 

  
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