Word
El reportaje me resulta interesante.
Meaning
The report seems interesting to me.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of El reportaje me resulta interesante.
interesante
interesting
me
to me
el reportaje
the report
resultar
to seem
Questions & Answers about El reportaje me resulta interesante.
Why is there a me in me resulta interesante?
Because me shows who experiences the impression.
In this pattern, Spanish often uses:
[thing] + resultarle a alguien + adjective
So:
- El reportaje = the thing being judged
- me = to me
- resulta interesante = seems / comes across as interesting
It does not mean that I am doing the action directly in the same way as English I find. Spanish frames it more like:
The report seems interesting to me.
That is why me is needed.
Why is it resulta and not resulto?
Because the verb agrees with el reportaje, not with me.
The subject of the sentence is el reportaje, which is third person singular, so the verb is:
- resulta = it turns out / it seems
Even though me means to me, it is not the subject.
Compare:
- El libro me resulta útil.
- La película me resulta aburrida.
- Los libros me resultan útiles. ← plural subject, so resultan
What exactly does resultar mean here?