Breakdown of Ella tiene mucha determinación, aunque nadie insiste.
ella
she
tener
to have
mucho
many / a lot
nadie
no one
aunque
although / even though
la determinación
determination
insistir
to insist
Questions & Answers about Ella tiene mucha determinación, aunque nadie insiste.
Why is insiste in the indicative mood here instead of the subjunctive?
In this sentence, aunque is followed by the indicative verb insiste because the speaker is stating a known, experienced fact. It translates to "even though nobody insists." If we used the subjunctive (aunque nadie insista), it would change the meaning to "even if nobody insists," which describes a hypothetical situation.
Why isn't there a no before the verb, like aunque nadie no insiste?
In Spanish, when a negative word like nadie (nobody) comes before the verb, you do not use no. You only need a double negative if the negative word comes after the verb, which would look like this: aunque no insiste nadie.
Could determinación also translate to "resolve" or "willpower"?
Why is the verb insiste conjugated in the third-person singular?
The subject of that clause is nadie (nobody). Even though it refers to zero people, the pronoun nadie always acts as a singular entity in Spanish (just like "he", "she", or "it"), so it takes the third-person singular conjugation of the verb insistir.
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