Nos vamos a divertir mucho en la fiesta si bailamos y cantamos juntos.

We are going to have a lot of fun at the party if we dance and sing together.

Breakdown of Nos vamos a divertir mucho en la fiesta si bailamos y cantamos juntos.

• cantar: to sing
• nosotros: we
• mucho: a lot
• bailar: to dance
• la fiesta: the party
• y: and
• juntos: together
• si: if
• a: to
• ir: to go
• divertirse: to have fun

Questions & Answers about Nos vamos a divertir mucho en la fiesta si bailamos y cantamos juntos.

Why does the sentence use nos vamos a divertir instead of just vamos a divertir?

In Spanish, the verb divertirse is reflexive, meaning that the subject (in this case, "nosotros") is both performing and receiving the action. So we say nos vamos a divertir to reflect that "we ourselves are going to have fun." You might also see it as vamos a divertirnos, which moves the reflexive pronoun (nos) to the end of the infinitive.

Why do we use mucho here instead of muy?

Mucho is used as an adverb to indicate the degree of enjoyment (it's modifying divertir). Since we want to say "We are going to have a lot of fun," we use mucho rather than muy. Generally, muy ("very") modifies adjectives and adverbs, while mucho can modify verbs (e.g., caminar mucho, trabajar mucho, divertirse mucho).

When do you use si to mean "if," and does it need an accent?

In Spanish, si without an accent means "if," while sí with an accent means "yes" or can act as a reflexive pronoun in other contexts. Whenever you want to form a conditional clause like "if we do this, then that will happen," you use si without an accent.

Why is it bailamos and cantamos in the present tense instead of another tense?

Because we're talking about a condition that can happen in the near future, it’s common in Spanish to use the present tense for both the "if" part and the future result. In English, it might be more common to use a future tense ("if we dance... we will have fun"), but Spanish often uses present tense in the "if" clause (si bailamos) followed by a future structure (nos vamos a divertir).

Why does juntos come after cantamos?

In Spanish, adverbs or expressions like juntos, which describe how the action is being done, often come after the verb. You could say cantamos juntos or juntos cantamos, but cantamos juntos is the more natural word order. It indicates we’re doing the action (singing) together.