Questions & Answers about No confiamos en el idiota.
Why is no placed before confiamos?
In Spanish, the normal way to make a sentence negative is to put no directly before the conjugated verb.
- Confiamos = we trust
- No confiamos = we do not trust
Spanish does not usually need an extra helping verb like English do/does/did.
If you include the subject pronoun, the order is still:
- Nosotros no confiamos en el idiota.
What does confiamos tell me about the subject?
Confiamos is the first-person plural form of confiar, so it means we trust or we do trust.
The ending -amos tells you the subject is we.
It can also be ambiguous out of context, because for many -ar verbs, the present and preterite nosotros forms look the same:
- confiamos = we trust
- confiamos = we trusted
In a simple standalone example like this, it is usually understood as the present tense unless context suggests otherwise.
Why is nosotros not written?