Uno vuelve a intentar lograr la victoria en el combate.
One tries again to achieve victory in combat.
Breakdown of Uno vuelve a intentar lograr la victoria en el combate.
en
in / on / at
a
to
lograr
to achieve
intentar
to try
uno
one (impersonal, people in general)
el combate
combat
volver
to do again (volver a + infinitive)
la victoria
victory
Questions & Answers about Uno vuelve a intentar lograr la victoria en el combate.
Why use uno here instead of just making it impersonal with se?
While you could use the impersonal se (like se vuelve a intentar), using uno makes the statement feel a bit more personal. It is used to talk about things people do in general, much like the generic 'you' or 'one' in English, but it usually implies that the speaker is including themselves in that shared experience. It always takes a third-person singular verb like vuelve.
If I am a woman speaking, should I change uno to una?
Why is it vuelve a intentar instead of just using a phrase like otra vez for the word again?
In Spanish, the most common and natural way to say you are doing something 'again' is to use the phrase volver a followed by an infinitive. Here, vuelve a intentar literally translates to 'returns to try', but it simply means 'tries again'. You could technically say intenta de nuevo or intenta otra vez, but using volver a is a very native-sounding structure you will hear constantly.
Is it normal to have two infinitives stacked together like intentar lograr?
Yes! In Spanish, you only conjugate the main working verb, which in this sentence is vuelve. Since volver a must be followed by an infinitive, we get intentar. Then, because intentar connects directly to the next action without needing a preposition in between, we can immediately attach the next infinitive, lograr. This creates a natural chain: conjugated verb plus infinitive plus infinitive.
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