Breakdown of No es que no aprecie la invitación, es que francamente estoy cansada.
ser
to be
no
no / not
estar
to be (location/state)
cansado
tired
que
that (relative pronoun, conjunction)
la invitación
the invitation
apreciar
to appreciate
francamente
frankly
Questions & Answers about No es que no aprecie la invitación, es que francamente estoy cansada.
Why is aprecie in the subjunctive, but estoy is in the indicative?
This follows the no es que... es que... structure for correcting a cause. We use the subjunctive (aprecie) for the rejected reason because we are dismissing it as the true cause. We use the indicative (estoy) for the actual, factual reason.
Does no es que no aprecie mean the speaker actually appreciates the invitation?
Yes. The two negative words cancel each other out logically, just like in English. The speaker is clarifying that they do, in fact, appreciate the invitation, but they need to reject it for a different reason.
The lesson mentions using sino que. Could we use that here instead of es que?
How do we know the gender of the speaker in this sentence?
The adjective cansada ends in -a, which tells us the speaker is female. If the speaker were male, he would say estoy cansado.
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