Thread: Before I noticed it... (help with grammar here! )

Hi, I'm trying to translate this phrase into English and I have lots of doubts about its tenses:

"Antes de que me diera cuenta, todo sobre mí ya le pertenecía a él"

mi intento es:

"before I noticed it, everything about me was already of his possession"


could you tell me if the tenses (specially the first part of the sentence) are alright?

I'm a native of Spanish, and I checked with an Australian translator. It sounds good!

Originally Posted by rociot

I'm a native of Spanish, and I checked with an Australian translator. It sounds good!

thank you! Before siempre me confunde un poco

If “todo sobre mí” can mean “my entire self”, then the common version would be “Without even knowing it, I became his and his alone”. But there’s something here I’m not quite getting. I guess that's not too unusual.

When you say the common version, you mean Without even knowing it, I became his and his alone is a saying?

Hola Blonda:


Aunque yo me dedico a traducir del inglés al español, también me gusta intentar de español a inglés. Aquí te dejo mi aportación y estaré al pendiente de los comentarios y sugerencias al respecto.


"Antes de que me diera cuenta, todo sobre mí ya le pertenecía a él"

"Before I knew it, all of me belonged to him."


Gracias... Xóchitl

Hi gernt, when you read that line in Spanish, the first thing that comes to mind is that it's definitely romantic or out of a love story.

Todo sobre mí involves my mind, my heart, my body, my life...todo being the key word here is everything/all that I am.