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I don't understand the use of menudo here because it means small and the question uses very often not very small.  Can you explain this to me?

vado una sorpresa negativa al tener un niño en vez de una niña, porque no te lo esperabas ¿no?"

(I imagine you may have got a negative surprise 

Native English speakers would say “an unwelcome surprise”, “a negative surprise” sounds very odd

It says above "if  the sentence has me, te, se, le, nos, os, les then no goes in front of these"

But what about direct  object pronouns los, las, lo, la?

Hola,

It seems like all previously accented words, such as lámpara, pájaro drop the accent, so that pronunciation is on the penultimate syllable - pajarito, lamparita?

Is that the case and are there any exceptions?

Gracias,

The exceptions are both words that describe places of origin.  Is this a pattern or are these two examples that just happened to be place names.  I can see three possibilities:

1) When you have a place of origin adjective (from Spain, from Analusia) you always use gendered plural endings.

2) When you use gendered plural endings for adjectives ending in z or l you always use gendered plural endings

3) It's just a coincidence in the examples and neither 1 or 2 is a pattern.

Which one of these cases is closest to being correct?

I am curious how this structure would work if the direct object is a pronoun, something like the following.

I had a beautiful beer mug.  I accidentally dropped it.

It's a little unclear, but I think you're saying in this lesson that in English we couldn't use an imperfect tense, but although it might be less common, I've certainly heard people say things like "I wasn't finding my keys" to mean that they had been looking unsuccessfully but now had found them.