Breakdown of Ellos sí que dejaron el piso embarrado con el yeso.
ellos
they
con
with
que
that / than
el piso
the floor
Questions & Answers about Ellos sí que dejaron el piso embarrado con el yeso.
What does sí que add to this sentence?
Why use dejaron + embarrado instead of just a simple past tense verb like embarraron?
Using dejar followed by a past participle is a resultative state periphrasis. This means it focuses on the visible consequence or the state of the object after the action is finished. Instead of just stating the action (they smeared it), it highlights the physical result: they left it in a smeared state.
Does the past participle embarrado need to agree with the subject or the object?
It must agree with the direct object. In the structure dejar + past participle, the participle acts like an adjective describing the state of the object. Since el piso is masculine singular, embarrado is also masculine singular. If they had left the walls (las paredes) smeared, it would be dejaron las paredes embarradas.
Since barro means mud, does embarrar only refer to making things muddy?