Breakdown of A causa de este problema, el racionamiento afectará a todos.
el problema
the problem
este
this
todo
all / everything
a causa de
because of
el racionamiento
the rationing
afectar
to affect
a
personal 'a' (marks a human direct object)
Questions & Answers about A causa de este problema, el racionamiento afectará a todos.
Why use a causa de instead of porque here?
Why is it este problema and not esta problema since the word ends in an "a"?
Even though it ends in "-a", problema is a masculine noun. Many Spanish words of Greek origin that end in "-ma" (like el clima, el sistema, el tema) are masculine. Because of this, it must take the masculine word for "this": este.
Why is there an a before todos?
This is the "personal a". In Spanish, when the direct object of a verb is a person or a group of people (like todos, meaning "everyone"), you generally must put an a before it. Since "everyone" is receiving the action of being affected, we say afectará a todos.
What tense is afectará and how is it formed here?
Afectará is the simple future tense of afectar (to affect). To form the future tense for regular verbs, you keep the entire infinitive (afectar) and attach the ending to the very end. The ending for "it" (referring to el racionamiento) is -á, giving us afectará (it will affect).
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