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Nos alegramos de haber visto este avance en su liderazgo.

Nos alegramos de haber visto este avance en su liderazgo.
We are glad to have seen this progress in your leadership.
From Lesson 302:The perfect infinitive (haber)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Nos alegramos de haber visto este avance en su liderazgo.

Why is haber visto used here instead of a conjugated verb like que hayamos visto?
Because the subject of both actions is the same (we). When the people who are glad are the same people who saw the progress, Spanish uses the infinitive instead of a conjugated verb. We use the perfect infinitive (haber visto) to show that the action of seeing happened before the feeling of gladness. If the subjects were different (for example, We are glad that you have seen), you would use que plus the subjunctive: Nos alegramos de que haya visto.
Why is there a de before haber visto?
The pronominal verb alegrarse (to be glad or to rejoice) naturally requires the preposition de when connecting to the cause of that happiness. Whenever you say you are glad about something or glad to have done something, the required structure is alegrarse de followed by a noun or an infinitive.
Is -azgo in liderazgo a common Spanish suffix?
Yes, the suffix -azgo is often added to nouns or verbs to indicate a status, role, or condition, which functions much like the English suffix -ship. Here, líder (leader) becomes liderazgo (leadership). Another great B2-level example is hallar (to find) becoming hallazgo (a finding or discovery).
Could nos alegramos also be understood as the past tense here?
Yes! The nosotros forms for the present tense and the preterite (simple past) are exactly identical for regular -ar verbs. Depending entirely on the surrounding context, nos alegramos can mean We are glad (present) or We were glad (past). The provided English translation uses the present tense, but in a past-tense story context, this exact same Spanish sentence would translate to We were glad to have seen this progress.

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