Learn Hardcore Spanish (Latin America): El compromiso y el aporte muestran potencial. - Commitment and contribution show potential.

Breakdown of El compromiso y el aporte muestran potencial.

Why is the verb muestran plural?

Because the subject is actually two nouns joined by y:

Together, they form a plural subject, so Spanish uses the third-person plural verb:

A singular verb like muestra would sound wrong here.

Why is there el before both compromiso and aporte?

Spanish often uses the definite article with each noun in a pair:

This is very natural and clear. In Spanish, repeating the article is more common than in English.

You may also sometimes see just one article with coordinated nouns, but here using el twice helps treat them as two distinct qualities or factors.

Why is potencial singular even though the subject is plural?