Phrase · 🔦 Emphasising and focusing
Lo que más me preocupa es la falta de transparencia.
What worries me most is the lack of transparency.
C1focusing a concernAudio · coming soon
Why every word is where it is
Lo1determinerthe (neuter)el · definitequepronounthat, which, whomásadverbmoremepronounme, to me, myselfyo · 1st sing.preocupaverbworriespreocupar · present · 3rd sing.es2verbisser · present · 3rd sing.ladeterminertheel · fem. · sing. · definitefaltanounlackfem. · sing.deprepositionof, fromtransparencianountransparencyfem. · sing..
- Lo → preocupa: topic clause
- es → falta: focus
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Lo que… opens a pseudo-cleft: the topic first, the focus after es. Emphasis and information structure: clefts and lo … que →
- 2ser links the topic and the focus, la falta.