Breakdown of El director con quien colaboro es el líder del equipo.
ser
to be
con
with
del
from the / of the
el director
the director
quien
whom / who (relative singular)
colaborar
to collaborate
el líder
the leader
el equipo
the team
Questions & Answers about El director con quien colaboro es el líder del equipo.
Why do we use quien here instead of que?
In this sentence, the director is a person. After a preposition like con (with), Spanish uses quien (whom) to refer to a single person, or quienes for multiple people. You cannot use the standard relative pronoun que for a person when it comes right after a preposition.
In English I would normally say 'The director I collaborate with.' Can I put con at the end of the sentence in Spanish?
No, Spanish never allows you to end a sentence with a preposition like English often does. The preposition must always come right before the relative pronoun, exactly like the formal English phrasing 'with whom' (con quien).
Where is the word for 'I' in this sentence?
Why is it del equipo and not de el equipo?
When the preposition de (of) is followed by the masculine article el (the), they must combine into the mandatory contraction del. It is grammatically incorrect to write de el as two separate words in Spanish.
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