Breakdown of Su táctica nos hizo ganar el partido.
su
his/her/its/their/your (formal)
hacer
to do / to make
el partido
the game / the match
ganar
to win / to earn
nos
to us
la táctica
tactic
Questions & Answers about Su táctica nos hizo ganar el partido.
Why is it "nos hizo ganar" instead of "hizo que nosotros ganamos"?
In Spanish, to say you "make someone do something," you use a causative structure: the verb hacer followed directly by an infinitive verb (here, ganar). You don't conjugate the second verb. The people who are made to do the action are represented by an object pronoun (here, nos), which comes right before the conjugated form of hacer.
Could the "nos" be attached to the end of the infinitive, like "hizo ganarnos"?
I learned that trying to influence someone's actions requires the subjunctive. Why use the infinitive ganar here?
You are right that verbs of influence often trigger the subjunctive, specifically when you use que (like hizo que ganáramos - "he made it so that we won"). However, when you drop the que and use hacer with an object pronoun, you just use the infinitive. Both structures are correct, but the infinitive is very common for direct causes like this.
How do we know su táctica means "his tactic"? Could it mean "her tactic" or "their tactic"?
Yes, it absolutely could. The word su is the possessive adjective for his, her, their, and your (formal). We translated it as "his tactic" here based on an assumed context, but if you heard this sentence out of the blue, it could refer to anyone in the third person.
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