Breakdown of Los niños no pueden dormir porque hace mucho viento.
el niño
the boy
no
no, not
mucho
many / a lot
los
the (masculine plural)
Questions & Answers about Los niños no pueden dormir porque hace mucho viento.
Why do we use hace instead of está for "it is windy"?
In Spanish, weather is often described as something the environment "makes" or "does." Hace viento literally means "It makes wind." We use hacer (to do/make) with nouns like viento (wind), calor (heat), and sol (sun). We use estar (to be) with adjectives, like está nublado (it is cloudy).
The English translation says "very windy," so why does the Spanish use mucho instead of muy?
Why is dormir (to sleep) left in its infinitive form instead of being conjugated?
When you have two verbs working closely together, you usually only conjugate the first one. Here, pueden (they can) is the conjugated verb, so the second verb dormir stays in its base (infinitive) form. This works just like in English: "they can sleep."
Why is there a "ue" in pueden?