in Spanish, mainly in specific situations when you have something done for you or when negative things happen to you, we can use a sentence that conjugates the main verb in the 3rd person plural (they), preceded by an indirect object pronoun (me, te, le, nos, os, les).
To have something done (for you)
For example:
In negative situations, when you don't expect something to happen
For example:
Bear in mind that when translated into English some of these sentences could also use the passive with "to be + participle" :
I had the ball passed to me once. → I was only passed the ball once.
We had our toys taken away. → Our toys were taken away.
For other structures used when expressing to have something done see:
- Using hacer/mandar + infinitive in Spanish for "to have something done"
- How to say to have something done in Spanish - mainly beauty and body contexts
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