Breakdown of En el pueblo murmuran sobre la maldición de esa casa.
de
from / of
la casa
the house
en
in / on / at
esa
that (feminine)
el pueblo
the town
sobre
on / over / about (a topic)
la maldición
the curse
murmurar
to murmur / to whisper (mutter, gossip)
Questions & Answers about En el pueblo murmuran sobre la maldición de esa casa.
Why is the verb murmuran in the 'they' form when there is no ellos or ellas in the sentence?
This is the impersonal third-person plural. In Spanish, when you want to say that 'people in general' are doing something, or when the specific people doing the action aren't important, you just use the 'they' form of the verb without a subject pronoun. Here, murmuran means 'people murmur' or 'word goes around.'
Could I use de instead of sobre to mean 'about the curse'?
Why use esa casa instead of aquella casa?
Esa means 'that' (indicating something at a medium distance, or simply 'that one' you are bringing up in conversation), while aquella means 'that one way over there' (further away in physical space or time). Unless you are physically pointing to a house far away in the distance right now, esa casa is the most standard way to say 'that house.'
Is maldición feminine because of how it ends?
Exactly. Almost all Spanish words ending in -ción (as well as -sión and -xión) are feminine. That is why it uses the feminine article la, making it la maldición.
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