Word
¡Qué coraje que no usen la instalación!
Meaning
How infuriating that they are not using the facility!
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of ¡Qué coraje que no usen la instalación!
no
no, not
usar
to use / to wear
qué
what
que
that / than
Questions & Answers about ¡Qué coraje que no usen la instalación!
Why is usen in the subjunctive here instead of the indicative usan?
Because the sentence starts with an emotional exclamation: ¡Qué coraje que...! (How infuriating that...). Whenever you use ¡Qué + noun or adjective + que to express a reaction, judgment, or feeling about a situation, the verb in the following clause must be in the subjunctive.
I thought coraje meant courage. Why does it mean infuriating here?
Why are there two types of que in this sentence?
They serve two different roles. The first one is qué with an accent mark, which acts as the exclamatory "what" or "how" (¡Qué coraje! = What anger!). The second one is que without an accent, which acts as the connecting word "that" (que no usen... = that they don't use...).
Who is the subject of usen in this sentence?