Breakdown of Respecto a la infraestructura, los ciudadanos y el alcalde se escuchan.
y
and
los
the (masculine plural)
escuchar
to listen
se
each other (reciprocal)
el ciudadano
the citizen
el alcalde
the mayor
la infraestructura
infrastructure
respecto a
regarding / with respect to
Questions & Answers about Respecto a la infraestructura, los ciudadanos y el alcalde se escuchan.
Does respecto a mean the exact same thing as en cuanto a in this sentence?
Is it possible to say con respecto a instead of just respecto a?
Why do we need the article la in respecto a la infraestructura when English often just says "regarding infrastructure"?
In Spanish, when you make a general statement about a broad category, a system, or an abstract concept like infraestructura, you almost always need the definite article. English often drops the article in these cases, but Spanish requires it to frame the noun.
How do we know se escuchan means "they listen to each other" rather than "they listen to themselves"?
The pronoun se can be reflexive (doing an action to oneself) or reciprocal (doing an action to each other). Context usually makes it clear: it makes much more sense that the citizens and the mayor are in a dialogue, listening to each other. If you ever need to remove ambiguity in your own speech, you can add el uno al otro (to each other) or mutuamente (mutually) at the end of the sentence.
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