Learn Spanish (Spain): Nadie debe olvidar que esta tarea es urgente. - No one must forget that this task is urgent.

Nadie debe olvidar que esta tarea es urgente.

No one must forget that this task is urgent.

Breakdown of Nadie debe olvidar que esta tarea es urgente.

ser

to be

que

that (relative pronoun, conjunction)

este

this (m.sg., also esta, estos, estas, esto)

olvidar

to forget

Questions & Answers about Nadie debe olvidar que esta tarea es urgente.

Since we are learning about deadlines, how would I use para to add 'for Friday' to this sentence?

You can simply add para el viernes at the end: Nadie debe olvidar que esta tarea es urgente para el viernes. We use para to set a specific deadline or temporal limit, which perfectly describes when the task is due.

Since nadie means 'no one', why isn't there a no in this sentence?

In Spanish, when a negative word like nadie comes before the verb, you do not use no. If you put it after the verb, you must use a double negative, like No debe olvidar nadie, but putting nadie at the beginning is much more common and natural for this sentence.

Why do we use es and not está with urgente?

Even though urgency feels like a temporary condition, Spanish treats urgente as a defining characteristic or quality of the task itself. Because it describes the nature of the task rather than a temporary physical state, we use the verb ser (es) instead of estar (está).

Why is it esta tarea without any accent marks on esta?