Las nubes desaparecen con el viento.

with

Breakdown of Las nubes desaparecen con el viento.

• el viento: the wind
• la nube: the cloud
• desaparecer: to disappear

Questions & Answers about Las nubes desaparecen con el viento.

Why is the article las used with nubes?

The noun nube is grammatically feminine. In Spanish, the definite article must agree in gender and number with the noun. Since you’re talking about more than one nube, feminine plural, you use las.

Why is the verb desaparecen in that form?

Desaparecen is the present-tense, third-person plural (ellos/ellas/ustedes) form of the regular -er verb desaparecer. The subject here is las nubes (they), so you conjugate desaparecer as desaparecen.

Why isn’t there a reflexive pronoun se (as in desaparecerse)?

Desaparecer is already intransitive, meaning “to vanish” or “to disappear.” You don’t need se to make it work. There is a pronominal variant desaparecerse, but in many cases Spanish speakers drop the se unless they want to emphasize that the subject is actively “making itself vanish.”

What does con mean in this sentence?

Here con means with, indicating accompaniment or instrument. It tells us that the clouds vanish together with the wind.

Why con el viento and not al viento?