Breakdown of Nos alegramos de que tu familia reciba el apoyo.
la familia
the family
tu
your
recibir
to receive
que
that / than
alegrarse de
to be glad about
el apoyo
the support
Questions & Answers about Nos alegramos de que tu familia reciba el apoyo.
Why is the verb reciba instead of recibe?
The main clause, Nos alegramos de que (We are glad that), expresses an emotion. In Spanish, whenever you express a feeling or emotion about an action performed by a different subject—in this case, tu familia—the verb in the second part of the sentence must be in the subjunctive mood. That is why the regular present tense recibe changes to the present subjunctive reciba.
The current lesson mentions me alegra que. Why does this sentence use nos alegramos de que instead of nos alegra que?
Both are perfectly valid ways to say the same thing! Nos alegra que literally means "It makes us glad that..." (where the situation itself is the subject doing the pleasing). This sentence instead uses the reflexive verb alegrarse (to be glad), making "we" the subject. They are just two different grammatical structures to express the exact same emotion.
Why do we need the word de here? Can I just say Nos alegramos que?
The preposition de is required because the full verb phrase is alegrarse de (to be glad about). When the thing you are glad about is a full clause starting with que, the de stays, creating de que. Dropping the de here is a very common mistake even among native speakers (a phenomenon known as queísmo), but standard Spanish requires it.
A family is made up of multiple people, so why is the verb singular (reciba) instead of plural (reciban)?
Even though it represents a group of people, the word familia is a singular collective noun. Just like in English where we say "your family receives" instead of "your family receive", Spanish uses the third-person singular form of the verb for collective nouns.
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