Él dijo que no asumirían el riesgo financiero.
He said that they would not assume the financial risk.
Breakdown of Él dijo que no asumirían el riesgo financiero.
él
he
no
no, not
que
that / than
decir
to say, to tell
Questions & Answers about Él dijo que no asumirían el riesgo financiero.
Why is the conditional tense asumirían (would assume) used here instead of a future tense?
This is reported speech. Because the reporting verb dijo (he said) is in the past, a statement originally spoken in the future tense (like 'they will not assume') must shift back to the conditional tense ('that they would not assume').
How do we know who is doing the assuming if there is no pronoun before asumirían?
The verb ending tells us. The -ían ending in asumirían specifically means 'they' (ellos or ellas) or 'you all' (ustedes). If it were 'he would not assume', the verb would be asumiría without the -n.
Could we leave out the word que in Spanish, like we often drop 'that' in English?
Why does the word financiero come after riesgo?
In Spanish, descriptive adjectives like financiero (financial) almost always come right after the noun they describe. This is why 'financial risk' becomes riesgo financiero (literally: risk financial).