Breakdown of No nos interesa la opinión del reportero.
no
no, not
del
from the / of the
nos
to us
interesar
to interest
Questions & Answers about No nos interesa la opinión del reportero.
Why is the verb interesa singular when the English translation says it does not interest 'us'?
Interesar works exactly like the verb gustar. The sentence literally translates to 'The reporter's opinion is not interesting to us.' Because la opinión (singular) is the actual subject doing the interesting, the verb takes the singular form interesa. The word nos is an indirect object pronoun meaning 'to us'.
Why is the subject (la opinión) placed after the verb (interesa)?
With verbs like gustar, importar, and interesar, placing the subject after the verb is the standard structure and sounds much more natural to native speakers. You could theoretically say La opinión del reportero no nos interesa, but the inverted order is what you will hear most often in everyday Spanish.
How would I rewrite this into a cleft sentence to emphasize that it is the reporter's opinion we don't care about?
Why doesn't the Spanish sentence have a direct translation for the apostrophe-'s in 'reporter's'?