Word
Es difícil enfocarse si hay mucha distracción en casa.
Meaning
It is difficult to focus if there is a lot of distraction at home.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Breakdown of Es difícil enfocarse si hay mucha distracción en casa.
ser
to be
si
if
mucho
a lot of
difícil
difficult
Questions & Answers about Es difícil enfocarse si hay mucha distracción en casa.
Why does the sentence use “es difícil enfocarse” and not something like “es difícil a enfocarse” or “es difícil de enfocarse”?
In Spanish, the pattern “es + adjective + infinitive” normally does not take a preposition before the infinitive.
- Correct: Es difícil enfocarse. = It’s difficult to focus.
- Incorrect: Es difícil a enfocarse.
- Incorrect: Es difícil de enfocarse.
You just put the infinitive (enfocarse) directly after the adjective (difícil) in this impersonal construction:
- Es fácil entender. – It’s easy to understand.
- Es importante estudiar. – It’s important to study.
- Es difícil enfocarse. – It’s difficult to focus.
Prepositions like a or de are used in other structures (e.g. difícil de entender as “hard to understand” used after a noun), but not in this basic “Es + adjective + infinitive” pattern.
Why is “enfocarse” reflexive here? What’s the difference between “enfocar” and “enfocarse”?