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El hombre culpable no puede salir del país.

El hombre culpable no puede salir del país.
The guilty man cannot leave the country.
From Lesson 129:Formal irregular commands (sea, vaya, tenga)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about El hombre culpable no puede salir del país.

Does culpable change its ending if we are talking about a guilty woman?
No. Adjectives that end in -e in Spanish don't change for gender. If it were a guilty woman, you would simply change the article and noun: la mujer culpable. You only change the adjective if it needs to be plural (culpables).
Why is the verb salir left in its infinitive form instead of being conjugated?
When two verbs are used together to express a single idea—like "cannot leave"—only the first verb is conjugated. Here, poder is conjugated as puede to match el hombre, so the second verb salir must stay in its infinitive (dictionary) form.
Why do we say del país instead of de el país?
In Spanish, whenever the preposition de (of/from) comes right before the masculine singular article el (the), they must combine to form the mandatory contraction del.
This lesson is about irregular usted commands. How would someone officially order this man to "Leave!"?
The verb salir has an irregular affirmative command form. If a judge or officer were giving him a formal usted command to leave, they would say ¡Salga! (And if ordering a group of people to leave, they would use the ustedes form: ¡Salgan!).

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