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Phrase · 🔁 Reformulating and summarising

O sea, que no vienes a la cena.

So you're not coming to dinner, then.

C1drawing a conclusioninformalAudio · coming soon
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Why every word is where it is

Oconjunctionorsea1verb(o sea) in other words, soser · subjunctive · present · 3rd sing.,que2conjunctionthatnoadverbnot, novienes3verbyou come, you are comingvenir · present · 2nd sing.aprepositionto, atladeterminertheel · fem. · sing. · definitecenanoundinnerfem. · sing..
  • O → sea: o sea
  • vienes → a: venir a

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    o sea = in other words, so: rewords or draws a conclusion; very frequent in speech. Discourse markers C1 →
  2. 2
    O sea, que…: que introduces the conclusion you draw.
  3. 3
    Present with future meaning for a plan. Present tense: spelling-change verbs and other uses of the present →