Spanish: The impersonal pronoun

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Spanish has a so-called impersonal pronoun. This impersonal pronoun is "se" and is often used in Spanish. It conjugates as third person singular and can often be translated with "they" or "one", but the impersonal pronoun is not present in English as it is in Spanish. (In French it would translate as "on", in German as "mann", in Italian as "si", and in Dutch as "men").

  • Se debe hacerlo - They have to do it / One has to do it
  • Se quiere venir - They want to come / One wants to come

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