Phrase · 🏢 Meetings and the workplace
¿Les parece bien si hacemos una pausa de diez minutos?
Is it all right with you if we take a ten-minute break?
C1proposing a breakAudio · coming soon
Why every word is where it is
¿Lesobject pronounto them, to youél · 3rd pl. · indirect objectpareceverb(¿les parece bien?) is it OK with you?parecer · present · 3rd sing.bienadverbwellsi1conjunctionif, whetherhacemos2verbwe make, we takehacer · present · 1st pl.unadeterminera, anuno · fem. · sing. · indefinitepausanounbreak, pausefem. · sing.deprepositionof, fromdiezdeterminertenminutosnounminutesminuto · masc. · pl.?
- Les → parece: experiencer
- hacemos → pausa: object
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1si + present indicative (Portuguese uses the future subjunctive: se fizermos). Real conditions: si + present →
- 2hacer una pausa = take a break.