Learn Spanish (Latin America): Viviremos donde la mortalidad sea baja. - We will live where the mortality rate is low.

Viviremos donde la mortalidad sea baja.

We will live where the mortality rate is low.

Breakdown of Viviremos donde la mortalidad sea baja.

ser

to be

vivir

to live / to be constantly (doing something)

Questions & Answers about Viviremos donde la mortalidad sea baja.

Why do we use the subjunctive sea here instead of the indicative es?

We use the subjunctive because the specific place hasn't been found or identified yet. When you refer to an indefinite or hypothetical place using donde (where or wherever), it triggers the subjunctive. If you already had a specific town in mind, you would use the indicative es.

The current lesson is about factual statements like el hecho de que. Is this sentence factual too?

No, they actually trigger the subjunctive for opposite reasons! Phrases like el hecho de que take the subjunctive when you are reacting to a known, established fact. In this sentence, donde takes the subjunctive precisely because the location is NOT a fact yet—it is an unknown, future requirement.

The English translation says 'mortality rate', but the Spanish just says la mortalidad. Is a word for 'rate' missing?

You can explicitly say la tasa de mortalidad (the mortality rate), but simply saying la mortalidad is perfectly natural and common in Spanish when talking about demographics. The English translation adds the word 'rate' just to make it sound more natural.

Why is the adjective baja instead of bajo?