Breakdown of El que asociemos los conceptos es un truco infalible.
ser
to be
un
a, an (masculine)
los
the (masculine plural)
que
that / than
el truco
the trick
el concepto
the concept
asociar
to associate
infalible
infallible
Questions & Answers about El que asociemos los conceptos es un truco infalible.
Why do we use el que here instead of just que?
When a whole clause (like "that we associate the concepts") acts as the subject of a sentence, Spanish often puts el in front of que. It essentially turns the phrase into a noun, meaning "the fact that". You could technically just start the sentence with Que asociemos..., but El que asociemos... sounds much more natural and clearly signals that this entire idea is the subject.
Why is asociemos in the subjunctive?
When you use el que (the fact that) to introduce a subject clause, the verb that follows usually takes the subjunctive. This happens because "the fact that we associate" is being treated as an abstract concept or an idea that we are commenting on (the comment being that it is an infallible trick), rather than just declaring an objective event.
If the first verb is asociemos (we associate), why is the main verb es instead of somos?
Isn't asociemos also a command?
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