Word
El jersei gris combina bé amb aquests texans blaus.
Meaning
The gray sweater goes well with these blue jeans.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Breakdown of El jersei gris combina bé amb aquests texans blaus.
bé
well
amb
with
aquest
this
els texans
the jeans
Questions & Answers about El jersei gris combina bé amb aquests texans blaus.
Why is the verb combina singular if texans is plural?
Because the subject is El jersei gris. The phrase amb aquests texans blaus is just the complement.
So the verb agrees with jersei, not with texans.
Compare:
- El jersei gris combina bé amb aquests texans blaus.
- Aquests texans blaus combinen bé amb el jersei gris.
In the second sentence, the subject is aquests texans blaus, so the verb becomes combinen.
How does combinar work in this sentence?
Here combinar means to match or to go well with, especially for clothes, colors, or style.
The pattern is:
combinar bé amb + noun
So:
- combina = matches / goes well
- bé = well
- amb = with
You will often hear this with clothes:
- Aquesta camisa combina amb la faldilla.
- El negre combina bé amb gairebé tot.
Why is it bé and not ben?
Because bé is the normal adverb meaning well, and here it modifies the verb combina.
- = matches well