Breakdown of Estamos agradecidos por la colaboración durante el trimestre.
estar
to be (location/state)
por
for / by / through / in/during (part of the day)
durante
during
el trimestre
the quarter
agradecido
grateful
la colaboración
the collaboration
Questions & Answers about Estamos agradecidos por la colaboración durante el trimestre.
This lesson is about the perfect infinitive. How would we change this sentence to say 'We are grateful for having collaborated'?
You would replace the noun la colaboración with the perfect infinitive haber colaborado. The sentence becomes: Estamos agradecidos por haber colaborado durante el trimestre. This is a very common way to use the perfect infinitive: after a preposition like por to express gratitude for an action completed in the past.
Why use estamos here instead of somos?
Why is it por la colaboración and not para?
In English, a business 'quarter' is one-fourth of a year. Does trimestre mean the exact same thing?
Yes. While English focuses on the math of the year (a quarter of 12 months), Spanish focuses on the number of months itself: tri- (three) and -mestre (months). In the business and financial world, el trimestre is the direct and standard translation for 'the quarter'.
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