Es mejor pedir ayuda a la profesora cuando no comprendes.

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Breakdown of Es mejor pedir ayuda a la profesora cuando no comprendes.

• tú: you
• cuando: when
• a: to

Questions & Answers about Es mejor pedir ayuda a la profesora cuando no comprendes.

Why does the sentence start with Es mejor? What does that literally mean and why is there no subject like "it"?

Es mejor literally means "is better", but in Spanish this works as an impersonal expression, like English "it is better".

Spanish often doesn’t need an explicit subject pronoun when the subject is general or impersonal. So:

• Es mejor… ≈ It is better…
• There’s an implicit, general "it" (not referring to any specific thing).

You could say Esto es mejor (this is better) if you were comparing specific options, but in general advice or rules, Spanish prefers the impersonal Es mejor + infinitive.

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Why is it pedir and not pides or pide after Es mejor?

After many impersonal expressions that give opinions, recommendations or evaluations, Spanish uses the infinitive:

• Es mejor pedir ayuda… = It’s better to ask for help…
• Es importante estudiar. = It’s important to study.
• Es fácil entender. = It’s easy to understand.

If you said Es mejor pides / pide, it would be ungrammatical here. To use a conjugated verb, you’d need a different structure, for example:

• Es mejor que pidas ayuda.
  (It’s better that you ask for help. — with subjunctive pidas)

So:

• Es mejor + infinitive (pedir) when you keep it general.
• Es mejor que + subjunctive (pidas) when you specify who should do it.

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