Phrase · 🥊 Arguing & persuading
Cabe perguntar a quem interessa manter tudo como está.
One may well ask who benefits from keeping everything as it is.
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
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- Cabe → perguntar: caber + infinitive
- interessa → a: interessar a
- manter → interessa: subject–verb
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1Cabe perguntar = "one may well ask": a formal way to raise a pointed question. Academic register: nominalisation, impersonality & hedging →
- 2interessar a alguém: a quem interessa = "who benefits"; the subject is manter tudo. Formal regência (normative verb government) →