Incluyeron las ganancias patrimoniales como si fueran pérdidas patrimoniales.

to be

Breakdown of Incluyeron las ganancias patrimoniales como si fueran pérdidas patrimoniales.

• incluir: to include
• como si: as if
• la ganancia patrimonial: the capital gain

Questions & Answers about Incluyeron las ganancias patrimoniales como si fueran pérdidas patrimoniales.

What tense is incluyeron, and what does it tell me?

Incluyeron is the preterite of incluir, in the 3rd person plural.

So grammatically it means they included. The preterite presents the action as a completed event in the past.

• incluyeron = they included
• incluían = they were including / they used to include

Here, the sentence is talking about a finished act of classification or reporting.

Why is there no subject pronoun like ellos?

Spanish often omits subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.

• Incluyeron already tells you it is they or, in some contexts, you all
• So ellos incluyeron is usually unnecessary unless the speaker wants emphasis or contrast

With no extra context, an English-speaking learner will normally understand incluyeron here as they included.

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