Breakdown of La junta de la asociación ya deja votar a los miembros.
de
of
a
personal a (marks a person object)
ya
already
votar
to vote
el miembro
the member (of a group, family)
la asociación
the association
la junta
the board (of directors)
dejar
to let, to allow
Questions & Answers about La junta de la asociación ya deja votar a los miembros.
Why do we use the infinitive votar here instead of the subjunctive?
With verbs of permission like dejar (to let) and hacer (to make), you can use an infinitive directly after the verb, even when there is a change of subject (the board lets, the members vote). You could also say deja que los miembros voten using the subjunctive, but the infinitive structure (deja votar) is very common and often feels more direct.
Why does votar come right after deja, instead of putting the members in between like in English?
If we wanted to replace a los miembros with a pronoun, would it be les or los?
It would be los (la junta ya los deja votar). When using dejar plus an infinitive, the person allowed to do the action is the direct object if the infinitive verb (votar) doesn't have a direct object of its own. Since they are simply voting (an intransitive action here), we use the direct object pronoun los.
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