Learn Spanish (Latin America): El presidente dice que todo está bien. - The president says that everything is fine.

El presidente dice que todo está bien.

The president says that everything is fine.

Breakdown of El presidente dice que todo está bien.

estar

to be (location/state)

Questions & Answers about El presidente dice que todo está bien.

Why is it dice and not dece if the verb is decir?

Decir (to say/tell) is an e-to-i stem-changing verb in the present tense. For the he/she/it form, the e in the stem changes to i, making it dice.

Could I just say El presidente dice todo está bien without que?

No, you cannot drop que (that) in Spanish here. In English, we often skip the word "that" and say "The president says everything is fine." However, Spanish strictly requires que to connect the two parts of the sentence.

Why do we use está instead of es here?

We use estar (to be) to talk about states, conditions, and how things are currently going. When saying something is well or fine (bien), you always use estar, never ser.

If the president were a woman, would the word be la presidente or la presidenta?

While la presidente used to be the traditional form, la presidenta is now the standard and most common way to refer to a female president in Latin America.