Breakdown of A rivalidade faz com que os jogadores rivais não falem uns com os outros.
não
not / no
falar
to speak
com
with
um
one
a
to / at (direction)
os
them (m)
outro
other
o jogador
the player
fazer com que
to make (someone do), to bring about
a rivalidade
the rivalry
rival
rival
Questions & Answers about A rivalidade faz com que os jogadores rivais não falem uns com os outros.
Why is it uns com os outros instead of just um com o outro?
Because we are referring to a plural group, os jogadores (the players). In Portuguese, when the reciprocal action happens among a general plural group or more than two people, we use the plural form uns... os outros. If we were talking about exactly two specific players, we would use the singular um com o outro.
Why does this sentence use the subjunctive falem instead of the indicative falam?
The expression faz com que (makes it so that / causes) expresses influence or causation over another subject's action. This structure always triggers the subjunctive in the following clause, making it falem.
In English we translate this as 'speak to each other'. Why is the preposition com used here instead of a?
In Portuguese, the verb falar is naturally paired with the preposition com when talking about conversing with someone (literally 'speak with'). Since the preposition goes between the two parts of the reciprocal phrase, we get uns com os outros.
Could I just say não se falam to mean 'they don't speak to each other'?
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