Phrase · 🎓 Academic and professional discourse
Conviene subrayar que estos datos son anteriores a la pandemia.
It is worth stressing that these data predate the pandemic.
C2emphasising a pointformalAudio · coming soon
Why every word is where it is
Conviene1verbit is worthconvenir · present · 3rd sing.subrayar2verbstressing (underlining)infinitivequeconjunctionthatestosdeterminertheseeste · masc. · pl.datosnoundatadato · masc. · pl.sonverbareser · present · 3rd pl.anteriores3adjectiveprioranterior · pl.a3prepositiontoladeterminertheel · fem. · sing. · definitepandemianounpandemicfem. · sing..
- Conviene → subrayar: convenir + infinitive
- subrayar → que: subrayar que + clause
- anteriores → datos: anteriores agrees with datos
- anteriores → a: anterior a
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1conviene + infinitive = it is worth, one should: impersonal convenir, softer than hay que. Formal register: impersonalisation, nominalisation and correspondence →
- 2subrayar = to underline, to stress (on paper and figuratively).
- 3anterior a = prior to; the adjective agrees with datos: anteriores.
Variations
- Hay que subrayar que estos datos son anteriores a la pandemia.
- Conviene recordar que estos datos se recogieron antes de la pandemia.
- Es importante subrayar que se trata de datos previos a la pandemia.