Phrase · 🕵️ Speculating about the past
¿Quién nos llamaría anoche a esas horas?
Who could have been calling us at that hour last night?
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
¿Quiénpronomwhosing.nospronom complémentusnosotros · 1re pers. plur. · CODllamaría1verbecould have calledllamar · conditionnel · 3e pers. sing.anocheadverbelast nighta2prépositionatesas2déterminantthoseese · fém. · plur.horas2nomhourshora · fém. · plur.?
- llamaría → Quién: subj
- llamaría → nos: obj
- horas → esas: agree
Mot à mot : “Who would call us last night at those hours?”
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1¿Quién llamaría…? The conditional wonders about a past event (= who could it have been?). About the present, use the future: ¿Quién llamará? Future perfect and the conditional of probability →
- 2a esas horas = at that hour, implying it was far too late (or too early) to call.