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No sabes lo importante que es la concentración.

No sabes lo importante que es la concentración.
You don't know how important concentration is.
From Lesson 366:Unfulfillable wishes (ojalá)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about No sabes lo importante que es la concentración.

Why is 'how important' translated as lo importante que instead of using cómo?
In Spanish, to express 'how [adjective]' in a statement or exclamation, you use the formula lo + [adjective] + que. You cannot translate 'how important' word-for-word as cómo importante.
I know we often use the subjunctive with phrases about importance. Why does this use the indicative es?
You use the subjunctive when stating that something is important, like es importante que te concentres (it is important that you concentrate). But here, you are just stating a fact about the degree of its importance. Because this is a statement of reality rather than a subjective trigger clause, the indicative es is correct.
Why is there a la before concentración if we just say 'concentration' in English?
Spanish requires definite articles (el, la, los, las) when talking about abstract concepts or things in a general sense. While English drops the 'the' for general nouns like concentration, time, or love, Spanish always keeps it.
Could I match the English word order and say lo importante que la concentración es?
No, that word order sounds very unnatural in Spanish. In this type of clause, the verb generally needs to come immediately after que, which is why es appears before the subject la concentración.

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