Phrase · 🔁 Reformulating and summarising
Como iba diciendo, el informe llega tarde por falta de datos.
As I was saying, the report is late because of a lack of data.
C1resuming your pointAudio · coming soon
Why every word is where it is
Comoconjunctionas, like; since; if (with subjunctive)iba1verbwas going; (iba a) was about toir · imperfect · 1st sing.diciendoverbsaying, tellingdecir · gerund,eldeterminerthemasc. · sing. · definiteinformenounreportmasc. · sing.llega2verbarrives; (llegar tarde) is latellegar · present · 3rd sing.tardeadverblate; (más tarde) laterporprepositionfor, by, through, because offalta3nounlackfem. · sing.deprepositionof, fromdatosnoundata, factsdato · masc. · pl..
- iba → diciendo: ir + gerund
- llega → informe: subject
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Como iba diciendo = as I was saying: ir + gerund picks up the thread after an interruption. Verbal periphrases III →
- 2llegar tarde = to be late.
- 3por falta de = for lack of.