Breakdown of Não há maturidade nenhuma sem vocês contribuírem para a família.
não
not / no
vocês
you (pl)
haver
to be (there is / there are)
a família
the family
para
to / for
sem
without
nenhum
no / none / not any (quantity)
contribuir
to contribute
a maturidade
the maturity
Questions & Answers about Não há maturidade nenhuma sem vocês contribuírem para a família.
Why is contribuírem conjugated here instead of using the standard infinitive contribuir?
This is the Personal Infinitive. After the preposition sem, when the action has a specific subject (here, vocês), we conjugate the infinitive to match it. For vocês, the personal infinitive ending is -em, turning contribuir into contribuírem.
Could we remove the word vocês and just say sem contribuírem para a família?
Why is nenhuma placed after the noun maturidade instead of before it?
Why does contribuírem have a written accent mark when the base verb contribuir does not?
In the base verb contribuir, the spoken stress naturally falls on the final syllable. When we add the -em ending to make the personal infinitive, the word becomes longer. The written accent on the í is added to force the stress to stay on that letter and prevent it from blending into the next vowel.
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