Breakdown of ¡La de postales que tiene ese vendedor!
de
from / of
tener
to have
ese
that (masculine)
que
that / than
la
the (feminine)
el vendedor
salesperson
la postal
postcard
Questions & Answers about ¡La de postales que tiene ese vendedor!
Why does this sentence use la de instead of las de, since postales is plural?
Could I use lo de instead of la de here to mean the same thing?
Why is the subject ese vendedor placed at the very end of the sentence?
In Spanish exclamations and relative clauses introduced by que, it is very common and natural to put the verb tiene before the subject ese vendedor. You could technically put the subject before the verb, but inverting the order to put the subject at the end sounds much more idiomatic to native speakers in this structure.
Since this sentence expresses strong emotion, why is the verb tiene in the indicative rather than the subjunctive?
Even though it is an exclamation expressing surprise, the speaker is declaring a concrete fact: the seller actually has a massive amount of postcards. Because it declares a reality rather than expressing doubt or a subjective reaction to a separate clause, the indicative mood tiene is required here.
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