Breakdown of El especialista con quien colaboro ya no vive aquí.
con
with / just by (+ -ing)
vivir
to live
aquí
here
ya no
no longer, not any more
el especialista
the specialist
quien
who, whom
colaborar
to collaborate
Questions & Answers about El especialista con quien colaboro ya no vive aquí.
Why do we use con quien here instead of just que?
Because the verb is colaborar con (to collaborate with). In Spanish, a preposition cannot go at the end of a sentence like it often does in informal English. It must go immediately before the relative pronoun. When a preposition comes right before a relative pronoun referring to a person, we use quien (for singular) or quienes (for plural).
Could I use con el que instead of con quien in this sentence?
Since especialista ends in -a, why does it take the masculine article El?
Nouns describing professions or people that end in -ista (like especialista, artista, or dentista) have the exact same form for both masculine and feminine. We use the article to show the person's gender. Here, El especialista tells us this is a male specialist. If it were a female specialist, it would be La especialista.
How does the phrase ya no work here? Can I put ya at the end of the sentence?
Ya no is a set phrase meaning no longer or not anymore. It is almost always placed directly before the main verb, as in ya no vive. While you might occasionally hear ya placed elsewhere in informal speech, keeping ya no together right before the verb is the most natural and standard way to express this in Spanish.
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